I agree with Niphlod about the danger of creating another 'repository of untested thingies'. The existing web2pyslices is already pretty good and maybe this one could be better. But what we are missing is the dedicated effort required to keep things up to date. I guess we are all hoping that Ivica will volunteer to do it for us, but that's an unrealistic expectation, especially when that buzz dies down.
I can see two possibilities for success: - we have a team of at least three volunteers to take charge of this (to ease the burden and provide continuity) - we make a paid site to make it commercially interesting. In the second point, before anyone feels upset about the principle of paying something, I would say this, one of the repositories of thingies is the 'Cookbook'. I thought that idea was great. Many of the lead developers contributed to getting a bunch of cool ideas together. I went and bought that book straightaway! I figured that even if one thing proved useful, I would get my money back. But even more than that, I thought that by encouraging this financially it would encourage the effort. The principle and precedent are still sound. Why not make a membership site which contains cool stuff and someone can make a little money to keep it going? Surely that could solve the problem. Maybe we could have two classes of membership, commercial users contribute something, others do not? IMO a 'cookbook' type site could work well. -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
