Question Will Kunena survive?

Matias,
My heart goes out to you devs completely. You've taken on a big job because this forum is the ideal solution for the less tech savvy Joomla users and there are a hell of a lot of us out there.
I don't think anybody was moaning at you and hope you didn't take it like that too.

All the best and remember to take a little time out.

The answer to the question here depends on how the Kunena community organize it self.

Studying other successful open-source project (apache, joomla, R, openoffice, etc) and defining some key features within those project may help (and studying project that fail). This has been done in a scientific way.
Some of the findings:

You need a core group that define and agree on goals, direction, milestone and roadmap.
You need enough developers, if someone step down, someone else step up.
You need a active community.
Single-person-project are rarely successful in the long run.

First of all more users must become active. From users to contributors. We need to ease the pressure on the developers (Their families/jobs should not suffer). I think most of the members of the community can help out by answering easy question in the forum, writing up documentation etc. In most of the cases the question has already been answerd, you just need to heard them in the right direction. But there are some difficult cases that the developers need to handle. It is just my idea but maybe a formal way for the "support-squad" to notify the developers about cases they should look at (PM or a own forum category) could reduce the numbers of post the developers has to monitor?

I think our worst problem is that the project is very new and we are slaves of our success. We haven't had any time to organize.

I'd like to gather some the most helpful and active users together, so that they have direct contact to the developers. We already have skype chats for devs, so maybe... Hmm..

waitinginvain wrote:

Let me first say that I really, really want Kunena to live and grow to become the premier integrated Joomla forum. It seems that communication and maybe development have slowed down a bit and that begins to worry me. A big part of choosing a forum is having a strong belief that it will be supported and improved. Communication is key in making users feel a certain level of comfort. Been a while for a tweet or blog - hopefully because everyone is diligently working, but some occasional, very brief updates would help me breathe easier.

Thanks for your volunteer work on this project and I'm anxiously awaiting the next iteration.

I believe it will, the developer has do their job in a maximum way. And as long as we still use and try to give some help and opinion to make it better, then it will survive for good.


Thanks,

kenlapz