> I'm tired of having someone propose a new committer because he
> or she thinks that the patch submission process is "too difficult".
In my case, I'm talking about existing Committers. *If* CVS commit rights
for Committers are widely perceived to be a barrier, then perhaps there
ought to be a place where Committers can equally contribute to a shared
document set. But the whole world? Use the Wiki.
> I think you are confusing the fact that people don't generally
> like to contribute documentation.
Although I consider this orthogonal to shared pages (people can cut and
paste vs. link on the Wiki as easily as the static sites), I do believe that
lowering the barrier (CVS or XML) has demonstrably increased documentation
contribution.
A lot of documentation has been building on the Wiki. Perhaps more than on
the official sites over the period. Some projects are moving their FAQ
pages to the Wiki. I am not promoting or discouraging that approach, but am
curious to see how it evolves.
In the case of James, we have had far more contribution to our pages via the
Wiki from normal users, than their taking time to learn the XML
documentation scheme. Users feel directly empowered. But I consider shared
content and Wiki use to be unrelated.
--- Noel
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