[mb-users] Seeing track edits for a release

[Robert Kaye]

On Dec 4, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Aaron Cooper wrote:
>
> Perhaps someone can whip up something about the NGS that can be
> submitted to digg.com explaining our plans and our need for
> developers.  There could be some experienced perl developers out there
> who would be interested in helping if they knew we needed it.

I don't think that is a good idea at all. Its a good idea for  
soliciting donations, but not developers for NGS.

The inception of the predecessor to MusicBrainz (the CD Index) was  
literally created out of a slashdot posting. The "community" that  
rushed in from slashdot to "help" this new project was so  
overwhelming, rude, discordant and an overall hassle that it formed a  
community that I didn't want. In the end I started MusicBrainz  
without ever letting the CD Index crowd know about the project  
because I wanted to lose just about every one from the old community.  
MusicBrainz was started with the right set of principles in mind and  
it was two years before we ever got slashdotted. (I remember Alan  
Cox, rudely and loudly shouting that any DB based system would never  
work and that we should use *DNS* for CD lookups if we wanted to make  
it work -- WTF?)

I don't think that a posting to Slashdot/Digg would attract the  
people we're looking for -- especially for a project like NGS which  
is going to take many months to complete. Now, if we wanted to start  
a drive to incorporate MB into every conceivable player out there, a  
Slashdot/Digg post would be the right way to do that. Integrating MB  
is a quick short term project that many Slashdotters/Diggers would be  
well suited for.

--

--ruaok      Somewhere in Texas a village is *still* missing its idiot.

Robert Kaye     --     rob at eorbit.net     --    http://mayhem-chaos.net


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