A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
a) I'm with hayden
and
b) I'm very frustrated that the work on MARCIE keeps getting shelved, or seeming like it's getting shelved. msbelle had volunteered to basically project manage the work; I doubt she can do that right now, since I know her offline life has gotten busier, but I'd bet there are other people here who would be eager to take her place and do any non-tech work of coordinating/research/planning that needs to be done.
The sense I get is that it's less important as a project to the coders than to the community as a whole. Is this an unfair assessment on my part?
Unfortunately (from the 'this concerns her' perspective), Zoe Ann seems to have left the building.
Damn, I was so excited that the Phoenix was back up, and now this...
t / sulking and sucking her thumb
The sense I get is that it's less important as a project to the coders than to the community as a whole. Is this an unfair assessment on my part?
The problem as I understand it is that we don't HAVE the coding resources for it.
It's sure as hell high on the list, but the coder who was going to do it had to drop out, and there's not really been anyone with the time or skill to take up the slack.
I have four free days next week. I had planned to spend them getting that thing that they call "a life", but I might instead give it a try.
If my PHP skills were better, I'd volunteer, but I'm from Redmond country.
'Taint much call for them 'round these parts, and all my learning has focused on XML and PHP.
(Cereal):
I just threadsucked the part of Better Board where the last discussion about MARCIE took place. I'll read it tonight, compile a complete spec of this feature and its functionality and post it to see if people agree with it.
I'm for the Marcie (except for the paranoid part of me which thinks everyone will Marcie me), but shouldn't we wait until the other issues that have come up recently (meaning within the last week) with the board are resolved?
And lately, I think everyone's been more concerned with making sure the board was still running/has a future than making additions. Understandably. (xpost w/Perkins)
I think a warning would be good. It's not like we'd be banishing her. Not sure it would DO anything, but that's a whole other issue.
Thanks for stepping up, Paul. I got as far as the threadsuck part myself, and then realized that there's no way I'm even going to get to look over it for days. Put up a yell (in BBaBB) if you need help/input.
