Re: feedback - two afterthoughts

[Nathan Clemons <nathan windsofstorm net>]

And even if there isn't a history of there being such a train of thought,
that doesn't mean that we cannot start one. Personally, this is EXACTLY
what I would do. See what others want, find something corresponding to my
needs/desires, and work on the project.

That's how I came to GNOME and this list, after all.

In my opinion, the GNOME project's biggest limiting factor is not
stability, not appearance, not lack of feature functions or applications,
but support and organization. If we build a strong organization,
eliminating duplication, then things will become much easier. Have you
noticed like I have that different things on the GNOME site are located
in multiple places? We need to take things, organize them, break them
down, put them in logical places, and move onward. This is one proposed
step in that process.

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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, pgarcia wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 11:10:00AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > realistically there's little history of free software authors thinking
> > "gee, I want to spend the next two years writing an app... let's see what
> > suggestions there are on the web site..."
> 
> While this is true, many gnome apps do recycle older software.  If a user
> wants an older app gnomified, the database would be the place to suggest
> it.
> 
> Furthermore, some users are going to make such suggestions anyway.  This
> would just give them a central place to do so, hopefully eliminating this
> type of traffic from gnome-list.  The most fundamental rule of organization
> is "a place for everything, and everything in its place."  Just in case
> someone does want to see what kind of gaps we have from a user's
> perspective, this would make searching for them much easier.  They would be
> in one place, being much less likely to get lost in the flux of general
> mailing list traffic.
> 
> 
> 
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