2009/4/30 Roberto Guido <[email protected]>: > On Thursday 30 April 2009 20:15:47 you wrote: >> Xesam is about creating a standard and that's pretty much it. >> > No shine (and above all accessible redundant information for everyone) -> no > attention by users -> no attention by developers -> no implementation of > Xesam -> no standard in place. > You can have the best specification in the world, it is useless if no one > adopt it. Someone in the list probably has more experience than me about > this :-)
Well, I am not sure you are right about this one. At least I am in the completely opposite camp. I just want bare-bones text with minimal fluff. To disprove your claim I think DBus is an excellent example. Reading the DBus spec doesn't bring you to any thing near a shiny web page, anyway DBus is a flourishing success. Also consider all the other specs hosted on FDO. Xesam.org is almost über bling compared to those, yet many of the FDO standards are widely used. >> Can you point to any specific points where this is a problem on >> xesam.org... I am not quite sure I understand what you mean. >> > First time I was on website I gain very bad opinion of Xesam, because I > couldn't find informations I required. Them were available (at least, the > xesam-glib binding), but... I didn't found them at first try. Sure, at second > I did, but I was motivated: I can figure most of occasional users open the > page, give a look, and back to read news on Slashdot without understand what > Xesam is. Ok, if you have these experiences that is a problem, but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. Most of it should be fixable by brushing up the existing wiki. >> I would also like to keep everything as close to the FDO >> infrastrukture as possible so that it will be easy to migrate back >> should that ever become relevant. >> > If it is so, probably this may be the major blocking motivation. But > dependency from a over-bureaucratic authority, as you say, unable to provide > some web space cannot be a reason to slow engage about Xesam or any other > wannabe standard. > As xesam.org proves I agree :-) -- Cheers, Mikkel _______________________________________________ Xesam mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam
