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Ahem, roadmap people? Come on, pull your socks up. We need to pick the =
ball up here.

On 14 Dec 2009, at 01:53, Jan Lehnardt wrote:

> Great feedback. Moving to dev@
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> Thanks Roger.
>=20
> Cheers
> Jan
> --
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> On 13 Dec 2009, at 13:57, Roger Binns wrote:
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>> Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>>> The worst that could happen is that
>>> people stop asking questions and I certainly don't want that.
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>> That is likely to happen with crossposting too because people are =
less
>> likely to answer and they certainly won't go an answer in all =
locations so
>> some of them won't have answers.
>=20
> I think I'm willing to take that risk :)
>=20
>=20
>> Anyone searching those locations first
>> will then see a lack of answers and assume that CouchDB is dead or =
stagnant.
>=20
> If people are really interested in CouchDB, they quickly discover the
> active community. If they stop looking after one empty question, I =
don't
> think they really care :)
>=20
>=20
>=20
>>=20
>>> The underlying problem is probably that the mailing list archives =
lack
>>> any sort of features that people find useful on StackOverflow. Maybe
>>> there's an angle to solve this in a nice way.
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>> How about fixing the home page to have a link about getting help in =
the "Get
>> Involved" section.  (Currently you are encouraged to come up with =
patches
>> which is a little too much at the beginning!)
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>> I've created a wiki page with what I think should be pointed to:
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>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Getting%20Help
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>> I think it would be best if a Google Custom Search was created which
>> automatically included the relevant locations (mailing list archive, =
wiki,
>> bug tracker) and hosted on the front page of couchdb.org.
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>> http://www.google.com/cse/
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>> BTW it is probably also worthwhile making the front page of =
couchdb.org
>> indicate that the project is actually alive.  There is no date on the =
page,
>> there is no "news" feed or even a link to news and pages like the =
roadmap
>> have no dates and are out of date anyway.
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>> Roger
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