[Clipart] Open Clip Art Library Release 0.05

[Jon Phillips]

BELOW:

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 13:36, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > Yeah, I dunno. I think we should consolidate to one roadmap and just
> > make softer deadlines for ourselves because *we* are busy.
> > 
> > I wonder if what you are proposing is best done in PERL. I guess at
> > least it could be proof of concept and functional for our needs...
> 
> >From my experience writing docsys, performance was never really an
> issue, and the functionality that will be needed is stuff that Perl does
> well - document processing, network communication, daemon behavior,
> cross-platform compatibility, and presenting a well-documented API.
> 
> Further, if it becomes apparent that portions did need to get recast in
> C, Perl provides mechanisms for redoing portions in C (not as cleanly as
> in Python, but I have no wish to write Python code).
> 
> > In terms of releases, I like our approach of getting things together at
> > the end of the month for release. I think this upcoming release with our
> > new logo selected we should push to a much larger audience and submit
> > through the channels. We have yet to do this, and I think we should ramp
> > up for this release with our info all tightened up. That will help push
> > this project.
> 
> Yes, I think you're right.  Can you take the lead on making this happen?
> Possibly the same approach can be used that you and I worked out for
> Inkscape, to good effect.  Let me know if you need help, otherwise I'll
> focus what time I can scrape together on getting a few more features
> into the code.

Keep hacking! I will focus on pulling together the image of the site and
PR stuff, roadmap, etc...


> 
> > I'm finding that we communicate a lot more on this project through the
> > mailing list rather than chat and that is ok...every project is
> > different.
> 
> Yup.  I think partly the issue that we're pretty evenly spread across
> timezones so the asynchonicity of email is having the advantage.  We
> seem to be doing well enough this way, so far!  :-)
> 
> Bryce
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