coapp-developers team mailing list archive

[Dario Bertini <berdario@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, I know about coapp since quite a bit of time, but (since my 
platform of choice is linux) I haven't look at it in a while, and it 
seems it has done huge leaps forward :D

So, the first question is:

Should I nag fellow windows developers to take coapp into consideration 
already? :) Is it good enough to use?

In particular, py2exe to me has always seemed quite an imperfect 
solution, and so coapp may be a solution for the issues that some 
developers have with it...

then... the second question is about the project discoverability, and if 
you can do anything about that?

I honestly tought that this project was dying... I looked into it, 2 or 
3 times in the previous months, and I've seen barely any progress on the 
code repository (the last commit having been made the 26th of april 2011)...

turns out that I was looking into launchpad, while the development has 
moved to github (as a bzr junkie I'm quite sad about that :/ , but 
whatever :P)

I don't know about you, but here, this 
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=coapp 
<https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=coapp> will turn out:

coapp.org in 1st position
launchpad.net/coapp in 2nd position

and github.com/coapp only in 5th position!

clearly github.com/coapp has a low google juice compared to 
launchpad./net coapp

worse: on the launchpad page, there's no mention about the project 
having moved to github for its code hosting... I think that adding a 
link to there would help newcomers who googled the project as well as 
google itself to understand what's the authoritative location for the 
project

on my own, I just +1'd and shared publicly on google+ the github page... 
hopefully this might help out :P

aside from that, I wonder if you can fix some small incoherences in the 
website? I pushed a small oneliner fix to the website project: 
https://github.com/coapp/coapp.org/pull/8

and there's also another issue with the website: the developer page 
(aside from the quicklinks), only has 2 tabs with a link each:

the first one is the getting started to 
https://github.com/coapp/coapp.org/wiki and that's ok

the second one points to an empty repository: 
http://coapp.org/Development/DevDocs.html I think the Development.html 
page may be consolidated to only point out to first location making it 
less confusing, but I refrained from doing any such change and asking 
for a pull request, given that you may have different ideas on how to 
layout these pages

ok, now maybe I'll try to see if I can shallow fork a pet peeve of mine

:Dario