I believe this is the 3rd time this subject has been brought up in the past year and, to my knowledge, devs have made no comment nor provided any direction so, as they say, no answer is an answer!
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:20 PM, shellster <shellsterd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well written. > > As an opensource developer (aside from my day job), I am aware of the > danger of caring too much about what the user thinks. > I am also aware of the potential dangers of forking a project. > > What I want is some sort of answer from the Prototype devs on how they > want the community to pitch in. Do they want us to develop our own > plugin websites, or do they want us to create an interface for their > main site? Do they want to develop it? Do they want us to develop a > comprehensive library as an extension of Prototype or as part of > Prototype? Will they ever official endorse such efforts (assuming > certain obvious caveats)? Unfortunately, it seems that the devs don't > care to provide any feedback on any of these issues. I am not > expecting anything more from the devs, but as a matter of courtesy I > would like them to explain how they would like us to get involved > instead of users just doing their own thing. > > Also, the answer of "submit a patch for consideration" doesn't really > cut it in this case, because I've personally seen patches never get > acknowledged, let alone get added. I've yet to see a patch get > added. Users aren't going to waste their time writing and cleaning up > code, if there's not at least a good chance of their patch being > considered. > > In short PrototypeJS needs to address these questions before the > project either falls into disuse or the users take matters into their > own hands and strike out willy-nilly and fully fork the project. > > > > On Aug 17, 8:04 am, Phil Petree <phil.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is the same old discussion that's been going on for months and I > wonder > > if it will ever get resolved to the satisfaction of those of us who use > the > > tool to enhance our sites. > > > > From what I can tell, there seems to be an uber-geek philosophy of "make > it > > better and they will come" and, to a degree that's correct. The problem > is, > > history is filled with technically superior products that ultimately > failed > > because of poor marketing and/or not listening to their users (betamax vs > > vhs and myspace vs facebook for two glowing examples). > > > > My fear is that prototype will ultimately face the same fate... be a > > technically superior product with a few guys pitching in and carrying the > > weight (anyone who follows this feed knows who the guys are who always > pitch > > in with an answer) while marketing, support, easy access to developed > libs > > and all the other goodies go ignored which causes adoption of the product > to > > dwindle because these things exist on another platform. > > > > Why is this important? I have a buddy that has a very successful site > > written in cold fusion, he developed the site just to familiarize himself > > with the language. Turns out, the site took off, he quit is day job, ran > > the site, and recently got a contract for heaps and tons of $$$ for the > > site. The catch? He has to rewrite the site in either .php or .net > because > > the buyer won't take it as a CF site. > > > > Does anyone want to end up with a site that, when its time to sell, will > be > > told, "that's all great but we're a jquery shop so you have to get rid of > > prototype... nobody uses that anymore!" > > > > From a product standpoint, I'm sure the developers have their hands full > and > > they do a really great job delivering a product that, for the most > > part, takes us away from browser level coding in a reliable and > consistent > > manner. Personally, I am extremely appreciative of their efforts and I > hope > > they keep up the good work! > > > > We all know what the but is... But I do think they need to set some > > community direction and allow the product to grow. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:11 AM, shellster <shellsterd...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I'm seriously considering building my own site to start adding things > > > like community documentation, additions to prototype, and plug-ins. > > > While the Prototype Dev's certainly don't owe me anything, I've been > > > pretty disappointed in there response time to user requests and even > > > submitted patches. I think if someone were to essentially "fork" the > > > project (me), but still give prototype all the credit it deserves, it > > > might be the best thing for the community. If I could generate enough > > > community buzz, and add a bunch of well written features to prototype, > > > perhaps then, the devs would start pulling some of the changes back > > > into prototype's core. > > > > > On Aug 13, 4:43 pm, Cantrelle Vincent <vcantre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm happy to see that the topic is not dead and that some ideas are > > > > coming out ... > > > > (too much work sometimes) > > > > > > @Sander: maybe I'm missing something (sorry in this case), but do you > > > > have finally any answer (from Prototype's side) concerning your email > > > > your decribed on th 20 Jul ? > > > > > > Regards > > > > Vinc. > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > To post to this group, send email to > prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. 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