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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

A couple of comments:

Re: How to attract developers? If we attract users who enjoy smgl then 
developers will come from some of those users who like to play.

How do we attract users? We have to concentrate on creating a great 
distribution. I don't think we should prematurely advertise smgl to get 
users if smgl isn't ready. The users would just have a bad experience 
and they won't give smgl a try when it is ready.

I personally think we aren't too far off getting a great system.

Re: the devel grimoire. I believe this system was changed by the 
grimoire gurus who knew what the problems were and I trust their 
decision. They have given access through cvs. Free and easy access will 
encourage the new users to try it out and when they have problems, who 
will they contact? the gurus. I think it can be likened to giving a 
child a loaded gun, you're going to have more problems.

My solution would be to rename the test grimoire to devel grimoire and 
rename the devel grimoire to:
gurus grimoire or gurus playground or "enter at your own risk" grimoire 
or supportless grimoire or dont-moan-if-it-dont-work grimoire. I'm sure 
others can come up with better names.

Duane.