I'm immensely grateful for the effort that Sharan has put into all of the documentation she has created. I can't comment on the guide because I don't have any desire to fill out your survey (that's just me, don't take it as any form of disapproval). When I used the term book I was referring to the paper form which is an order of magnitude more difficult to get published and a much bigger deal (it's listed on Amazon, it has reviews, etc.).
But as I mentioned below, things like this are just something we should discuss as a community and attempt to come to a consensus. Regards Scott On 17/03/2010, at 7:46 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote: > Hi Scott: > So, this gets really "sticky" because the publishing industry would say that > a "book" is a document that consists of a certain number of pages. I don't > remember exactly how many, but I think it something like 30+ pages. I know > that Sharan's manufacturing guide is in excess of 30 pages. I also know that > she spent many hours on this. By my reckoning, this is "news". This is the > first time that I know of that someone has written a piece in excess of one > or two HTML web pages that speaks directly about OFBiz manufacturing and MRP > features. Isn't that "news"? I mean isn't that great news! Someone has taken > the time to put this together and is offering it to the public? > > Regards, > Ruth > > Scott Gray wrote: >> I would most definitely class a book about OFBiz as news, it's not like they >> get published regularly. Assuming we go ahead and slim down the news >> section I would class news as being articles from a reputable news source or >> items of significant importance to the community (like a book being >> published). If there is ever any doubt about whether or not an item should >> go in there then I think we should just discuss it here on the dev or user >> list as a community. >> >> I still feel like we need some sort of guidelines for the wiki page that the >> ex-news items will go into, but I would really like the community to come up >> with the guidelines since apparently I'm too biased to be taken seriously. >> >> Regards >> Scott >> >> On 17/03/2010, at 6:32 PM, Sharan-F wrote: >> >> >>> Hi David >>> >>> If that's what the community wants then thats OK with me but I think we need >>> to define what 'news' is. For example is the book by Packt publishing >>> classed as news or promotional material? (To me its news but it also >>> promotes Packt) >>> >>> I think if there can be any ambiguity then we need something the say what is >>> acceptable and what is not. If Tim has this covered then great but I'd still >>> think it would be good to have something written somewhere so we're all >>> clear on what's what. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Sharan >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://n4.nabble.com/Proposal-Guidelines-for-News-Items-tp1597365p1597405.html >>> Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >> >>
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