Re: [hylafax-users] new community site

[Chris Jones <c.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:14 -0600, Darrick Hartman wrote:
> Hylafax should remain with the main branch.  I know Lee is one of the 
> more prominent posters to this list.  I don't know how involved he is in 
> the coding as I'm not on the developers list.

I had a reaction I couldn't quite condense when I first saw this thread
and I think you have just about summed up what it was.

This is supposedly "friction in the hylafax community" or whatever, yet
for many people, the phrase "hylafax community" means very little, so
forking a community that doesn't seem to exist makes even less sense.

In reality there's just some people on a mailing list, then every so
often some voodoo happens and a new release is out. As far as I can see
there is no board and no benevolent dictator, just some people walking
in the same direction. I don't consider that to be "a community" as
such, more a convenient arrangement.

Perhaps the various people who do actually do things for Hylafax could
speak up and then it might be a little clearer what the community is and
where it it going.

Reading just this mailing list you could be forgiven for thinking that
all development is done by either iFax or Lee, and that Lee mostly does
all the support.

As for my own point of view, I think you all rock, despite its apparent
lack of leadership and structure, this is one of the most reliable bits
of open source software I have the pleasure to use. I hope very much
that it can continue to grow and mature as one project, even though I
will not have the fortune to work with it after next week.

With that, farewell and keep up the good work.

Cheers,
-- 
Chris Jones
IT Department
ICM Group



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