Noah Slater wrote:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Miles Fidelman
<[email protected]>wrote:
Web sites are, by and large, NOT like print ads - they generally are not
the first point of contact that someone has with a "product." Rather they
are "collateral" - akin to brochures, spec. sheets, case studies, and the
like. Someone is likely to go to the CouchDB web site AFTER
hearing/reading about CouchDB somewhere else, and goes to
couchdb.apache.org (or more likely couchdb.org) looking for details -
specs, white papers, slide shows, a list of who's using CouchDB, a live
demo, and signs that the project is alive, widely used, and supported by a
strong community of maintainers and developers, (and perhaps a commercial
ecosystem that can provide hosting, development, and other forms of
support).
Good point. Gonna add it to the wiki?
(I never said it was like a print ad, I think I side the exact opposite,
no?)
Done, and, oops (had to go back and re-read your post - read it too
quickly the first time).
Ummm... it's pretty hard to find. I had to go back through the email
thread to find it, and the archives are not even searchable.
What?
I presume you've been following this thread? Did you not open it the first
time I linked to it? You're complaining that you had to go back through
your emails to find a link?
What?
The archives are searchable if you use Markmail.
Was referring to the link to the wiki comments page. Yes, the archives
are searchable via Markmail, if I could find a link to the Markmail
archive. The point of a web site, and particularly a wiki, is to make
it easy to find information. Unlike, say, WikiPedia, ASF's wiki pages
don't have a discussion page automatically tied to a page - so it is
actually pretty hard to both remember that there is a comments page, and
then how to find it.
The quickest way to turn off potential users is to make information hard
to find. There's no link to the Wiki on the front page.
Yes there is. It's in the Quick Links section.
Well yeah, but it's called "documentation" which is actually a link to a
specific page on the wiki.
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
