[Ktechlab-devel] Start a ktechlab yahoo group

[Mauricio Giovagnini]

Lawrence Shafer escribió:
> I like mailing lists a lot better myself because I can keep track of a 
> lot more through my inbox than if I had to track a website all the time, 
> times a dozen.... Aslo, it's a quick punch of the compose button to get 
> help. I love it, but maybe I'm just old school.
> 

I think both approaches have its pros and cons.  I am member 
of both kind of communities: e-mail lists and forums.  The 
email lists had a huge boost when the mail clients let group 
the mails in a tree way with a sort of intelligent algorithm 
tracking not only the subject but also the replies.

On the other hand the forum let new users take a fast watch 
on their problem and the possible solution.  It's more 
natural for them to read a forum (its a web page in fact) 
than to subscribing to a mail list , asking and waiting for 
an answer.  Even tracking old questions can be a little bit 
annoying to a new user, no matter if the mail list is 
published in the internet with a "next/previous" button to 
follow the mails.

Anyway as it has been said, the problem of Ktechlab right 
now its not its "user base", no matter if its small or huge, 
the mail problem is to find a way to continue developing it 
without having to deal with a net of objects hierarchy 
(There's a post from Alan Grimes that explains this very 
well).  As far as I know and as far as I see Ktechlab needs 
a deep change in this area rather than being translated to a 
thousand languages and or to adding more devices.

I thought I could contribute adding more PICs but I realized 
that a deep change in how components are added is a much 
bigger priority.  Adding new components in the actual way of 
coding will only add more chaos to the maintenance of the 
project.

As a resume I think the project is not killed, dying or 
anything like that.  Ktechlab is a project that needs a deep 
reformulation on how new electronic components are added and 
modified.  After having done that, the project will boost 
itself because the translating effort won't be in vain, the 
community could add more and more device and post them in a 
mail list or forum and so on.

I like to think on Ktechlab as a race car that needs a 
change in its engine.  If we change its engine (the way 
components are added) we can win the race :)







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Mauricio Giovagnini (Maunix)
www.maunix.com.ar
Cordoba, Arg.
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