[Scooby] Re: [General] Scooby project landing page

[Lisa Dusseault]

On Feb 14, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:

>
> When 0.1's release date was reset to Feb 14, we all agreed that it  
> was:
> + Primarily for internal validation of release process for Scooby
> + While we're at it, we should make cool new AJAX things we're  
> doing available to people
> + We always want to be attracting developer interest, but it's not  
> the raison d'etre of the release

I put "attracting volunteers" at the top of the list, myself, for  
motivating the release.  I have no serious worries about validating a  
release process that worked fine for Chandler and Cosmo many times.    
I have no problems with making Scooby technology available to people  
early but frankly my reason for doing so is self-interest more than  
altruism as I think that will spark more contributions :)   We have  
one code contribution to Scooby already (some JavaScript date util  
stuff) and I'd like to see more.

>
> (The mantra with Chandler has always been, you'll get developers  
> when you get users.)

This seems not to be the case with Scooby.  The barrier to entry to  
becoming a Scooby developer may be much lower than becoming a  
Chandler contributor because it's a smaller system built in a more  
conventional way.  You might also consider the existing contributor  
to be a "user" as he downloaded the .js files for use in his own  
project.

>
> I guess a slightly different angle on this is: When we look back on  
> the 0.1 release to evaluate whether it was a success, a draw or a  
> failure, how will we evaluate the release?

If we get any rise in contributions.

>
> If the QA process breaks down OR no one can download Scooby OR the  
> demo-instance craps out, but 3 new developers wanted to join up on  
> the project because they're psyched out our logo, would we have met  
> our objectives? (It's unlikely that the latter would happen if the  
> former did happen ;o)

I'd say yes.

>
> Now given those goals and their relative priorities, how does a  
> nicely organized text-based page (html or wiki) fail to communicate  
> these things?

Don't have an answer to that one :)

>
> Mimi

Lisa