I've not taken part in this discussion, but looking through, it might be
worth throwing in my 2p:
User Forum
+1 from me. A web based forum is far better than a users mailing list
these days, the main benefits I see are ease of search/navigation,
ability for users to 'lurk' without needing to sign up, less worry about
email spam, and also that people are just far more familiar with the
format. Die-hard mailing-listers can always subscribe to the
notification emails.
User Wiki
+0.5 from me. Wikis are good. The ability for so many people to
contribute is excellent. However, I don't think we should see them as a
substitute for solid help and documentation. In my experience, a user
wiki can have inconsistent weighting and quality, and can end up a bit
of a scrawling mess (e.g.
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Category:Tutorials). For something with
isolated topics like a FAQ they are excellent; for something that needs
to hang together with an overall story, they are not so good. In my
opinion, wikis tend to get bigger over time without necessarily getting
any better. In my own application usage, I tend to see the built-in
help as the definitive reference, with google/user-wikis to hand only
when necessary.
Servers/Hosting
We should see what the tigris upgrade does for us before considering a
big move. I can't see how any new features over and above even the
present tigris set-up would warrant the disruption caused by moving
elsewhere.
Dave
Thomas N. wrote:
Hi Tom,
I agree and was also worried about the ownership of
http://www.argouml-users.net/, you can see my question in the forum there.
But:
1. Making sure that the project retains control of intellectual
property like host names, web site contents, etc. If the wiki
successfully attracts lots of user contribution, it will be a very
valuable resource that would be a shame to lose.
I feel not confortable with mentioning this here. It might look like the
content of http://www.argouml-users.net/ belongs to the project, but I consider
it more as a users site.
Personally, I'll support it, as long as the project has no better solution, and
I won't wait for that.
Thomas
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
