<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pushparajan V</b> <<a href="mailto:vprajan@gmail.com">vprajan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am in this mailing list for about 2 months and nothing fruitful discussed which leads to a particular development model.. This project diverts like anything and now Mahalo coming in is quite confusing. What is the future plans ?.. I don't know why only very few question about the vision of this project..
<br><br>Is this project exponentially leading to death ??.. How many users are there in this mailing list ?<br>
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Yeah, I'm kind of with you on this. I mentioned a few times that I think what the project needs is a leader with a vision - wait, that's not fair. Jimmy has given us a vision, but it's too vague. We, the mailing list, have proposed all kinds of disparate ideas, but thus far the bazaar has failed to self organize enough to actually get going.
<br><br>And I think that may be due at least in part to the .com - the for-profit motive of the parent. But I also think it may be largely inherent in the model. Past bazaar development software project probably at least had a preconceived idea of what their software was going to do, function-wise. Going to the masses and saying "let's build something cool and open - what should we built?" just may not work. And indeed, it doesn't seem to be.
<br><br>There have been many hints of stuff in the works, and perhaps we, the general mailing list, do not have access to all the goings on in Wikia... In the spirit of open-ness, I hope that is not true - that at least our fearless leaders would clue is in on the *plans*, if indeed there are any concrete ones, to build a Wikia search engine.
<br><br>Best Regards,<br>Aerik<br>