23 Feb
2011
23 Feb
'11
6:17 p.m.
Excerpts from Alexandre Prokoudine's message of 2011-02-23 14:01:10 +0100:
Each of those will be used by some people at most, so do you want to tie
them all together? Basing everything on a single service such as github
will force people to choose between exclusion or adoption of said
service, a really bad idea. The benefit of github and similar is that
commits and other stuff that happens can be monitored so the dev doesn't
need to expend additional effort to let people know what he's doing.
On 2/23/11, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
But the question is whether the whole writing stuff is necessary and
adds something. Social networks are general purpose, not special
purpose. Writing stuff there is additional effort.
I do live behind the moon when it comes to web
technology, but isn't rss
meant for notifications? Maybe simpler, email?
Nope. I'll elaborate below.
If it needs a social networking thing for some
reason, maybe diaspora
will do the trick? With diaspora chances are better that someone will
write a good user interface of some sort.
Yes, diaspora is much closer to what's required. Right now
github and the likes seems to be used as a social network
thing among developers, but I don't think it's a good idea to rely on
such a service for communication.
Yes, a good idea IMO would be a service on top of existing service
like github, twitter etc. They all expose API after all, no? Now, here is why rss, email et al don't do a good
work enough: they
don't provide perspective and they don't expose connections between
people right away.
There could be a catch-all mailinglist. For rss and the likes, there
are aggregators like planet (which is in use already, for example:
http://planet.linuxaudio.org/ [but includes stuff like Traktor...])
I've served several years as social hub for free
graphics software developers and I can tell you that while email and
Jabber and IRC and whatnot, as well as F2F meetings at LGM, LAC etc
are the ultimate communication means, it's very important to stay
tuned to all things happening. For same reason I woudn't limit such a
dream service to audio developers, because audio is related to video
(audio effects in NLE, JACK compatibility), and video is related to
things like static graphics and video drivers (likewise audio is
related to kernel, ALSA and FFADO), and so it all is intertwined.
AFAIK, Linux.com was supposed to become a kind of social service.
Maybe it's worth investigating what their plans are.
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
I do agree that it should be open for related fields, but there should
be some barriers IMHO, simply because I don't think closed source
non-linux development would add anything (just an example, because of
that Traktor review. I'd be pissed to see stuff like this).