-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 March 2003 19:32, Austin wrote: > The wiki is cool, but there is something to be said for: > autonomy > simple domain name > official status > > Austin
I agree with you on all of those points. The ideal solution would be for mandrake to simply host a wiki on their servers (www.mandrakewiki.com?). Steffen Barszus and me had been "lobbying" for a wiki for a while now, and only got one very tentative response from a Mandrakesoft documentation writer. My hope with the wiki is that many people start participating and that after a while Mandrake notices us and sees that this is indeed a valuable thing for both the community and the company. An example for the usefulness of the wiki (for those who are not convinced): I've continually seen Mandrake developers ask for more information from people posting bug reports. This is obviously a waste of their precious time. The new "Needmoreinfo" bugzilla status helps - but not a lot. Imagine you're a newbie and see "Needmoreinfo" - you have no idea what to do. There needs to be a place people can point to and say: this is the info that is needed when reporting eg. a sound bug (http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Mandrake/bug_reporting/sound). I've also begun copying and updating the www.mandrakeuser.org documentation on the wiki. (Hint hint: anyone is welcome to help ;-) ) Best, Sascha Noyes - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+a/QdgzJdfX+cTW8RAjerAKCc4bqodWkbHdsJZWwf213sRIwSJACeOHrl haAbXfaUW5jYkv2DsOck76Q= =Y8p8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
