Hello Paul,
Hello x2gousers...
I'll spend my little break to answer some questions which have been asked and I'll comment some really good ideas:
We'll NOT close down the mailing list. Sorry for that I can't change the name any more - this is caused by the administration form of BerliOs. The mailing list is the best thing to communicate with you. Paul had some really good ideas to integrate it even better in our website. I'll do this! The forum of Tobias is something completly different and it will be addressed to beginners and will communicate use cases and so on. After every third question on our booths was about a "forum", I think - if you address beginners directly - this will help them. But again - the list is the most important communication method for us. We already had a forum in the beginning and it was really a lot of work to maintain and a lot of questions were uncommented, because of to many branches you could write in. To get it in one sentence: The list will stay exacly as it is - please go on using it - it is really a good and proofed way for communication - but...
If we can have any influence about who will build a x2go forum (which will be build for sure in my eyes), Tobias would be "our choice". Tobias is part of the linux4afrika team and linux4afrika is a big part of our community.
So I really understand every single argument and I'm glad that this is discussed!
About democracy: with my last mail, I wanted to spend my time to give you again more details about how we are trying to go on with x2go. And I really must say - yes, we should spend more time on communication (and maybe to ask more questions). But sometimes there is still no time left
- like in preperation of events like Linuxtag or when you spend a lot of time looking for a viciously hidden bug.
There was an Bugtracker active inside the BerliOs Site, but nobody used it - in future we'll wan't to integrate it with the git.
Again we wan't to thank all the people in the list to answer questions to user and for having some very good ideas. This comminication helps us in many ways and if you think something is not Ok for you, please place it here. Be sure that we are open minded and some things just need to be learned or can't be realized at once.
best regards...