[web2py] Re: Congratulations to this mailing list

2011-04-04 Thread Mengu
i don't believe that you've said this on purpose yet you would wish something more for web2py. however have you ever joined the django irc room or the mailing list? have you ever seen the questions asked over and over of which answers already said in that -really- great documentation? On Apr 4, 2:

Re: [web2py] Re: Congratulations to this mailing list

2011-04-04 Thread Ross Peoples
I do have to say that the first time I went looking for help, I went to the IRC channel, that had 7 people in it, all of which were idle. The IRC channel would be great for answering quick questions for new users, and joining a mailing list does require a bit of commitment. For the more in dept

Re: [web2py] Re: Congratulations to this mailing list

2011-04-04 Thread Marin Pranjic
I can join if you need idlers :P On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Mengu wrote: > also people are not couraged to join the irc room. that's one of the > reasons. > > On Apr 4, 12:26 pm, selecta wrote: > > ah i was just about to complain that the main page still links to a > > strange irc channel

[web2py] Re: Congratulations to this mailing list

2011-04-04 Thread Mengu
also people are not couraged to join the irc room. that's one of the reasons. On Apr 4, 12:26 pm, selecta wrote: > ah i was just about to complain that the main page still links to a > strange irc channel, but that finally changed > i guess this is one of the reasons why there are so few people i

[web2py] Re: Congratulations to this mailing list

2011-04-04 Thread selecta
ah i was just about to complain that the main page still links to a strange irc channel, but that finally changed i guess this is one of the reasons why there are so few people in the irc channel, it was just not linked properly On Apr 4, 9:38 am, Mengu wrote: > it's because they beat us on the n

[web2py] Re: Congratulations to this mailing list

2011-04-04 Thread Mengu
it's because they beat us on the number of irc users. :) as of april 4, 2011, 10:33 am gmt +2, #django has 289 users, #rubyonrails has 498 users, #web2py has 16 users. we are definitely more than that. just come to irc, especially yourself massimo. of course we cannot underestimate the number of p

Re: [web2py] Re: Congratulations to this mailing list

2011-04-03 Thread Esteban Ordano
Congratulations! I'm really fond of the web2py framework. In fact, after having used both web2py and django, I am very biased towards web2py. I think that you simply *get* it, and you did a excellent job, and you keep on doing great work. But I think that this has to be taken with extreme caution

[web2py] Re: Congratulations to this mailing list

2011-04-03 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Here is another plot adding Ruby on Rails data (rubyonrails-talk) http://i.imgur.com/sPLzH.png we passed them too as messages/month since Dec 2010. According to this (http://rubyonrails.org/community) rubyonrails-talk is the main Rails list for users. Massimo On Apr 3, 7:08 pm, Anthony wrote:

[web2py] Re: Congratulations to this mailing list

2011-04-03 Thread Anthony
I don't have exact numbers, but over the past 11 months, I think the web2py Google Group membership has grown by over 50%. By contrast, it appears the Django Google Group membership has grown by only about 10%-15%. I guess there's a reason there were three April Fools jokes on Reddit targeting

[web2py] Re: Congratulations to this mailing list

2011-04-03 Thread Pystar
significative??? On Apr 4, 12:53 am, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > I mined some data from: > > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/abouthttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users/about > > This web2py users group had 56,283 messages posted since 1/1/2009. The > Django-users list had 51,119 over t