Re: [hylafax-users] new community site

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Darrick Hartman wrote:

> This is probably true, but the way it was approached, it appears to be 
> a surprise, if not sinister.


The way that I saw it I had two options: 1) do it and debate Darren over 
it afterwards, or 2) debate Darren over it first and then do it.  By 
doing it the first way I feel more proactive than reactive, and it was 
an overall positve work experience for me, rather than one being done 
under the feelings of disagreement.

> If your intention is to provide excellent documentation and get some 
> of the great ideas out of your head and onto a website that you and 
> others have control over, great.


That's part of it, yes.

> Promote the website as a documentation site and leave the downloads on 
> the hylafax.org site.  If you know that a particular nightly cvs 
> release is fairly stable and adds some neat new feature or fixes a 
> specific bug, make a link to it from the sf site to the archive on 
> hylfax.org's ftp site.  Perhaps if you clearly state that the sf site 
> is a mirror, then it would be OK to have releases there, but also 
> state the formal releases are on the hylafax.org site (or something 
> like that).
> Also see no point in you having a bug tracker if you're not forking 
> the code.  I would think if anything this would slow down development.


Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Gentoo, and probably many other 
distributions include HylaFAX.  Most of them have their own forums for 
support, most of them even have their own patch sets, some of them have 
their own set of HylaFAX documentation, nearly all of them use their own 
naming schemes for it ("4.2.2-1.2", etc.).  I do not believe that any of 
this is harmful.  Sourceforge is merely doing the same thing... with the 
difference being that I am heavily involved in both development at 
Sourceforge and development at hylafax.org, and thus developments at 
Sourceforge are more likely to make their way to hylafax.org sooner than 
later.


Thanks,

Lee.


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