On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:01:26 +0100 Nino Novak <nn...@openoffice.org> wrote:
> > - thus become unmaintained, outdated or stay incomplete > > they do not become unmaintained because of lacking the appropriate > category - they lack their category because they are unmaintained Thats about half right: Pages certainly _do_ become unmaintained because of lacking the appropriate category, but they also lack their category because they are unmaintained. The best example is what is happening right now: Since the pages have been dumped in "Documentation", people are taking a lot more care of them. I dont care if a page did not end up in the best possible category on first try. But I am pretty certain that pages now in Documentation will soon move down to their proper place in a subcategory. That wouldnt have happened when the pages stayed in uncategorized. There was little harm and a lot of good done by these pages moved out of uncategorized, even if they will soon move on to subcategories. > > - still might show up on searches and lure users away from the > > maintained documentation > That does not change with giving them a (wrong) category The category "Documentation" was not wrong for the pages. It wasnt the best category, but better than no category (and if only because people now care about them, while happily ignoring them for years in uncategorized). > Not at all. They are clearly identifiable. With a wrong category they > are lost. - The category wasnt wrong, just too generic. - They are not lost at all. If they would be lost, we would not be talking about them. > Who is actually this "someone maintainig the category"? Project members. In this case for example you. > Who is actually the "maintainer for the subcategory"? A subset of the project members. The project should know who. If it doesnt it should find someone to take care of the category. Remember the alternative is to worse: Ignoring the "Unknown Unknown" of topics covered in uncategorized pages is risky (it actually might be risky quite literally: just imagine illegal some content on an uncategorized page that nobody feels responsible for). > Then use an appropriate Category and not the wrong one. Whenever unsure, I will use Documentation/Candidate and will expect Documentation project guys to take over from there. Different projects use different systems to organize their content. I cannot and will not learn all of those. Best Regards, Bjoern Michaelsen -- =========================================================================== Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering =========================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
