[cad-linux] Re: Methods and Mediums (was test)

# from phrostie
# on Wednesday 25 February 2009 09:55:

>it's the gathering of ideas and people willing to help others that is
> magic, not the medium, or who mods it.

True, so long as the barrier to entry has a short duration and spam can 
be controlled.

>i don't know the typical demographic of our membership, but from what
> i've read the younger generations(yes, i'm becoming an old fart)
> consider things like email lists obsolete.  if we stagnate because we
> refused to let go of a medium then we've failed.

Hehe.  I don't think we would get running code any faster by using 
twitter ;-)

But I have often wanted some form of push-based (not mail/rss) 
notification mechanism for cvs/svn/git commit messages.  If you want to 
get developers talking more, give them an easier way to listen to each 
others' code.  Ohloh and github seem to be trying to do something like 
this, but ohloh at least makes a fine mess of the whole thing.

--Eric
-- 
"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so 
ingenious."
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