discuss: Dealing with poor maintenance by maintainers
Subject:
Re: Dealing with poor maintenance by maintainers
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
13 May 2002 16:10:05 -0000
Message-Id: <10205131207.ZM12227@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On May 13, 11:57am, David Merrill wrote:
> Subject: Re: Dealing with poor maintenance by maintainers
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:01:31PM +0200, jdd wrote:
> ...
>
> Lampadas!
>
>
> Bet you are *all* getting tired of hearing that. It dices! it slices!
> I folds your laundry! hehe.
>
> But seriously, one of Lampadas' core goals is to do exactly what you
> describe, and in fact to help solve this whole entire problem. Rate
> documents, so we know where to focus our efforts. Get feedback from
> users, right where it needs to be so we *and* the author can see what
> needs to be done. And, for docs not "maintained" (or maintained, but
> where the author gives the go-ahead), we can have authors-at-large who
> go around doing those tweaks on them, as the suggestions, bug reports
> and such come in from readers.
So this system will eventually replace the current web site (tldp.org)
and all mirrors? That will be the only way to effectively garner any
and all reader feedback. Forcing the user to go to another system or
website to provide comments and rate documents will not work.
--
Ferg
