On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:24:37 -0700 Frank Worsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. The main problem Ian Molton and you seem to have with the current > site is that content is hard to find. That is probably a good point, > but I think the way you have reorganized the content is even worse. I would say that Effecting a full scale 'all in one go' transition is VERY hard. I would suggest letting Liam make the poage official, and continue refining the layout. The original layout of content was so illogical that there is really no way to transition gradually and still have things make sense. Liam is a braver man than I - I gave up after doing a significant amount of re-organisation, because I couldnt face the problem of doing a phased update. I think that unless anyone has a MAJOR complaint about the new site, it should become the default. I must confess that I am not surprised that the developers have STILL not given Liam a complete list of supported features - despite being aske long ago by him, and several times, more recently by me. The DRI project as a whole suffers BADLY from a total lack of communication - partly caused by NDAs that should never have been settled for, keeping specs out of the hands of most developers, and partly caused by people working in ivory towers. DRI is in serious trouble - NVidia did it alone, and I think the other manufacturers are aware of this. If the DRI project loses its USERS, then I think manufacturers will simply go elsewhere, or do it alone. And one thing users WANT is a list of supported features for their card. You only need to look at the windows world - theres dozens of sites like Toms Hardware 'hot video card zone' 'video card shootout site blah blah'. And if anything, Un*x users are even MORE into knowing the specs and details of their system. DRI is almost closed development. I can download the linux kernel and Hack HAck Hack - its truely open, specs and all. I cannot do this with DRI - there are no specs. all I can do is poke blindly. Hm. turned into something of a rant didnt it? Well, now that Ive pissed everyone off with my Autistic bluntness... Does anyone have any problem with that? ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
