Hello Jorgen (hmm where's the umlaut when I need it?), On 2005-05-04, you wrote:
My suggestion: let's only kick booty when we're 100% sure it's Troll-booty.
I'm here and at amizillas ML but not being very usefull ;-) . Anyway, I usually just read the mails because I find it interesting. What I think that everybody should understand is that if there are complete silence about a projekt like this (AmiZilla, Paihia, AOS 4 etc....) people wonders why, what's happened since they last read about it. Months of silence can be quite painfull ;-) . Even a line like "we've done about 30% work" or "work continues, we've doen a bit but there is still much left" is really enough.
First of all, IMO lurking is no problem at all. At this point in tiem I'm mainly a lurker here myself, my 'tasks' being PR and testing both of which require little work given the projects still early stages. The utterly weird thing however is, that every person/group trying to do something constructive in the world of Amiga attracts a number of vocal Trolls. A percentage of those disguise themselves as unknowing first-time posters. (I'm pretty sure you've seen this phenomenon on the well-known fora). That makes it hard to distinguish between said Trolls and true first-posters. Alas that sometimes results in the true first-poster receiving a less warm welcome than he/she deserves. In Luke's case I hope there's no damage done. Putting my PR cap back on, one of our ideas was/is to publish news-worthy statements when we have one. Just the message "we're alive and coding, albeit slowly" doesn't really cut it IMHO. On this level the golden-oldy 'no news is good news' rule applies. An untimely death of this project would surely be news-worthy tho.
It's not that people are idiots not understanding that you're working on it!
Like I mentioned, I usually don't write at all at these MLs but I want you to think twice before you accuse someone for trolling. Calm down a little and be fair. Well, I'm breaking a record here myself :-). Anyways, if you reread my message to Mark & Rose you'll see that you and I agree about thinking twice...
My opinion offcourse. I'll probably go back to being quiet now ;-) . Thanks for being constructive!
And thanks for the work that you're doing, everyone involved with Amiga >are very excited about it, I'm sure.
Regards /Jörgen Danielsson
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