A lot of folks have been asking me what's going on with me on LDN, since they haven't seen me writing very much online. The truth is, I have veen writing, a lot. It's been mostly e-mails, telling people what's going on with LDN, getting things organized, plotting the next phase of my plans to rule the-- er, provide a high-quality resource for Linux developers.
It's been interesting to slowly watch the interest in LDN grow over the past few weeks. Since we're still officially in beta mode, we've been making tweaks to the site here and there, but we have been careful not to change the aspects of the site that are already working pretty well. The idea is to let things grow organically, and not try to dictate what parts of the site will be the most popular.
One of the areas we are seeing really interesting growth is our forums section. Now, on the surface, that doesn't seem like such an exciting thing. Really, a forum is just a forum, right? To some extent, that's certainly true. But the reason I have highlighted it ios because of the content of our forums.
For example, the LSB General Forum offers readers a real insight they may have not seen before: a direct window into the ongoing LSB 4.0 development project. That's because this channel of the forums mirrors discussions from the [lsb-discuss] mailing list. A few times in recent weeks I have heard grumblings that the LSB development process is somehow some kind of secret society. It's not. The work that gets discussed was always available in mailing list archives, but now it's even easier to access.
Like Linux itself, the LSB strives to be an open process. This means that anything going into LSB 4.0 is an open book. All you gotta do is read all about it.
