On Nov 16, 2007 11:31 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 15, 2007 12:32 AM, James Margaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> > > Right now posting on the lists feels like playing to an empty theater. > > i can appreciate why you say this. i prefer to think of it as > conductive a monologue ;-) > > apache is highly ranked and the mailing lists well archived and > indexed. each post is recorded and nothing wasted. words build a > community. engineer the process for serendipity. maybe an example would be illuminating i've been trying to build up a new community around JAMES IMAP for most of this year. i blogged more about IMAP and email (it's natural since i've been spending more time on this and have more comments). i've also started to email more speculative posts to the mailing list (search for my name and IMAP at http://james.markmail.org/). for many, many months this was principally a monologue but i persevered. over the last month or two, i've started to find newcomers replying. i have high hopes that over the next six months, a healthy community will have bootstrapped. there are a couple of reasons why i think we look at list traffic: one negative and one positive apache needs to to ensure active projects do active development from closing up to outsiders (i don't think that this is true for XAP) the other is that many people here have observed that good use of the mailing lists is crucial for community building. IMHO XAP has a healthy list atmosphere but increasing the number of good posts would increase the likelihood of independent developers showing up on list. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
