Anyone reading the posts about CDDB in Slashdot today and yesterday will
probably have noticed that the community support for this project seems
rather large. Except for one or two Escient disgrunted employees, every
post was either supporting the effort or supporting the effort and
offering sugestions/advice.
I think this puts a greater burden on everyone of us. I would like to
see some coordination of efforts in place.
As I see it, between yesterday and today half a dozen persons with the
resources readily available launched mailing lists and/or web sites to
support the project. While I can only be happy to see such a prompt
reaction, I think that right now the last thing we need are two or three
competing groups working on different specs. I would also like to point
out that hosting the project in any form should not give the host any
provileges when it come to design/coding issues. Those are decided, as
always, by peer vote and running code.
So I would urge all list owners and site owners to decide among them who
will be responsible for what. That decision should probably be based on
who will be less burdened by the task (remember that we will probably
need cvs sometime soon). After that we should probably think about how
we proceed to draft our protocol and to divide ourselves in groups to
code the reference implementations. But that is still future.
cheers
Paulo