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Hadrian On May 4, 2011, at 10:37 AM, James Strachan wrote: > On 4 May 2011 15:24, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Mule is also an open source project and that had more of a relevance when >> Camel started and was a Mule competitor. That page can go away too. >> >> As James brilliantly stated: let's think of the Camel user's needs and >> address them. For needs that go beyond a developer's need to understand and >> use Camel, such as getting support or extra tools, the Camel community can >> add subtle hints (on the Support page as mentioned), just because we're nice >> guys, but going beyond that is wrong. That's not our mission/role. It may be >> your role as individuals/employees. Blog about it! > > I think you're twisting my words; if there's a good > introduction/article/example/book/tool to help users use Camel we > should be able to link to it within reason if its helpful to users; > not have some draconian policy where we have only X pages frozen in > stone forever as the only pages allowed to link to something off the > camel.apache.org domain. > > Forcing users to make extra clicks & navigation just to get to the > right sections of 'safe pages' seems silly and doesn't seem to help > users at all. I'm all for tidying things up and trying to limit the > spread of links; but at the same time, hiding useful information from > users or forcing them to perform unnecessary navigation or searches > doesn't seem to be helping users at all. Balance is required between > helping users find things easily and complying with whatever todays > apache policy is on external links. > > -- > James > ------- > FuseSource > Email: ja...@fusesource.com > Web: http://fusesource.com > Twitter: jstrachan, fusenews > Blog: http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ > > Connect at CamelOne May 24-26 > The Open Source Integration Conference > http://camelone.com/
