Hello, On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:17:31PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 16. September 2009 15:18:29 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > > > Hurd had recent activity in under an hour of searching. > > > > Hm, that was really bad :-( > > Jupp - great coders often don't quite see the importance of good PR ;) > (for me good PR and good marketing of a free software project are > characterized as making people see the strengths of the project which are of > interest to them)
I also think that promotion is important and, agreeing with you, I'm sure that PR can be quite a frank stuff, not necessarily attempting to propagate something bloated. > > > Some time later I decided to amend that situation, first by working > > > on the wiki (and nagging ;) - Thomas did the brunt work of switching > > > to ikiwiki), and now by writing the news. > > > > Oh, I used to think that the Hurd wiki has always been running on > > ikiwiki... Your mails are very informative for me :-) > > I don't quite remember everything back then. Maybe it was ikiwiki, > but Thomas changed it to working with a git backend (which allowed > me to work much easier and allows us to make the wiki a staging area > for the main website). Indeed, having the wiki in git is considerably more comfortable (and faster, BTW) then doing web commits. Also, it helps keep things in order :-) > > Yeah, you are doing a very important contribution by writing the news, > > and this is great :-) > > Not as important as the contribution you do by writing code. You're > making the Hurd better. I try to make people see that. Nicely put :-) Thank you :-) Regards, scolobb
