omns wrote:I'm still looking forward to a 9.04.02 release 
I don't understand what there is to be careful about. Crunchbang is about sharing ideas and experimenting with software. I know that's what drew me here in the first place and keeps me hanging around (apart from the lovely community and the friends I've made here )
Being careful implies worrying about damage to image and popularity. I can only speak for myself but I think that not worrying about it is a feature of Crunchbang.
how refreshing and liberating.
fun and free,
the way open source is ment to be.
leave the "worrying" to those with big bank accounts and upity stockholders to appease. 
it occurs to me that there is a balance to be struck between quantity and quality. pruning user base is unlikely to ever be welcome or effective at improving the quality of the user base, nor are efforts to increase userbase numbers. a pile of noobs wont be nearly as effective at improving themselves compared with throwing in a few caring expertly users interested in pedagogy into the mix. a pile of snobbish hacker elites with no interest in helping the newer users will equally see their community fester and suffer.
so far, i've seen crunchbang strike this balance very well. ... tho it does feel small and homely... and thats a tough comfort zone to be in. let the village become a metropolis? or let the village stay a [backwards] village?
gotta stay nimble to be both metropolis and villiage.... best not to force it n create growth faster than capacity, or dev teams end up loosing the edge on the dev, and end up just holding hands of noobs, and noobs end up asking more questions than can be catered for, stealing time and energy from the two important ends... community education and software developement. all about the balance... them eastern folk knew their stuff. 
so i say, crunchbang is naturally brilliant... let the chips fall where they may, lets just play.
(escuze me... i do like to go off on one every once in a while)
Last edited by Digit (2009-06-28 22:19:48)
