Sebastien Arbogast wrote:
Such management tools should allow people that have the responsibility to validate and publish content on the website to quickly grasp the job they have to do. For example, I may want to have a quick look at all changed documents that have the "forms" "flowscript" or "sitemap" tags, without having to scroll through all the tags. Or also notification emails or RSS feeds to track changes to such tags.
What I'm seeking for is tools that make writing docs really easy. If the process to perform a task for which you don't have a high motivation is too heavy, then you simply don't do that task. If the tools make this easy and notify you (in whatever form) of what you have or should do, then there's a higher chance that you will do it.
Well, I guess I'm describing something named... is it CMS? ;-P
Waouh Sylvain this is just great. Mark I hope you're taking notes
because he is quite prolific ;-P
Hehe. After lazy consensus, you discover that things often don't happen not because people are against it, but because they're lazy. Give them tools that lower the amount of energy they need to spend and the job has a higher change of being done ;-)
I sometimes do presentations about how opensource works. And something that really amazes people is all the tools and processes that OSS communities have set up over time to ease their job, which the have a lot to learn from. If we have CVS (or SVN), Ant build, mail archives, unit tests and all that stuff, it's not because we are some strict and rational IT professionnals, but because without these tools, the ratio of time spent to really doing things is to low. Tools are necessary for OSS communities to survive.
I see at least 5 new ideas in this new thread, ideas we have to
integrate in brainstorming forum. This is just great, this is exactly
the kind of feedback we need.
Hehe, your rant has shaken some minds, and started this constructive discussion. Sometimes a little rant is good to awaken people. But one needs to find the correct amount of rant so that awaken people start a constructive discussion and do not start to collectively shoot the messenger ;-)
Cheers, Sylvain
-- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies http://apache.org/~sylvain http://anyware-tech.com Apache Software Foundation Member Research & Technology Director
