On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:28:11PM +0100, Mark Goodge wrote: > On 22/06/2011 12:12, Matt Ford wrote: > >I wasn't aware of the open letter published by Public Whip: > >http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/openletter.php but it seems at least one MP > >is aware of the imminent closure of the website and has proposed an > >Early Day Motion to highlight the issue, maybe it will get some results? > > Who currently runs Public Whip, and what's the issue regarding its > continuation? The open letter doesn't really address that at all.
It was deliberately cryptic because that's how I felt. That was part of the point - I only ever maintained Public Whip because I felt like it. It's too important to be based on just what one individual *feels like*. The key thing isn't that it is reliably maintained. It is that it is reliably iterated and improved. There's a massive opportunity loss because Public Whip hasn't changed for years. There are zillions of ways it could be better - small and large, technical and community. While Public Whip was there, but not iterating, just about filling up the space of projects/sites about MP voting... nobody else had the incentive to do anything new and innovative in that area. Now there are a few others who've volunteered to help, certainly in the short term. Notable for doing some coding and sysadmin are Paul Waring and David Matthewman. In terms of leadership, I'm optimistic we'll have found someone else good to run it before the end of July. But won't talk about that more in public yet... Francis P.S. There's also a link at the bottom of the open letter to some forum posts which say a bit more. _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
