Hi The note, that mailing list works amazingly well is really true. I am afraid, that if BaseX team would grow in activities as it shall, some things will change a bit (e,g, answers will arrive into mailing list within 30 minutes instead of current 5-15 minutes "-))
Book http://predictablesuccess.com/about/ shows natural life cycle and I am not sure, how well it fits Open Source development (depends on funding - what makes the early struggle fever real or postponed). My feeling is, that current stage is fun
And as soon as it outgrows from this, it will fight with complexity and come through white water implementing needed processes and entering Predictable success stage.
So my advise would be
1. do not make things too complex, until needed, if they work well now. 2. Watch out, if complexity arrives and as soon as it is there, know, that establishing processes is the cure.
Jan
2011/1/27 Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de
On 27.01.2011 10:56, Jan Vlčinský (CAD) wrote:
Hi all My comments
*Mailing list* It works well for me now as I have most e-mails in my GMail already. But
The list is archived, and my search box is called "Google search", restricted to site:mailman.uni-konstanz.de/pipermail/basex-talk/
I think that despite the rather primitive nature of mailing list workflows, it works amazingly well, also for other archived mailing lists that I'm on. Therefore I don't feel that there's an immediate need to change this. Another (admittedly minor and surmountable) thing to consider is: if there is a new system, will it be feasible to import the current archive so that you don't have to search two different archives?