On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 16:40, Nathan Hurst wrote:
Jon, we _DON'T_ want lots of users just yet. Look what happens when you get lots of users: they complain about features not being available; they complain that the interface isn't exactly like their favourite program XYZ; they clutter mailing lists up with questions answered already in the FAQ or user manual(which we haven't even written yet); and you spend the whole time worrying about fixing code to compile on borland visual gcc 2.96.
Can we stop treating this as a commercial project whose main aim is to maximise user base? I've been on such projects before, and they usually die a horrible death.
Well, I still share Jon's concerns as far as developer recruitment goes.
Anyway, I'm a firm believer in "if you build it, they will come." Maybe not as fast and as furiously as if it were agressively marketed, but IMO we need some breathing room to gain (and keep) our footing anyway.
We're already getting mentioned in the same breath as Evolution and the GIMP on Slashdot. Let's not tempt fate. ^_-
-mental