Hi Frank, On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:47:06 +0100, Frank Schönheit wrote:
> Hmm. Is a wiki really better for discussing things which are still > evolving? For discussion it depends. Lengthy discussions may be better handled by mail, at least if participants know how to quote ... shorter discussion is also ok in a wiki if it stays ontopic. On the other hand, you can also group the discussion nicely by topic or whatever you like, and gain more overview than by mail. See Wikipedia, there is a discussion page for each individual topic, same in the go-ooo wiki, just that there isn't much content in discussions yet. For the sample code it would be better to live in a wiki. Having several levels of quotes in mail interspersed with new code fragments and arbitrary line breaks inserted by incapable mail tools doesn't really add to clearness. The advantage of a wiki is that you immediately see the current final version, but still have the diffs available, much the same as with any versioning system. You simply can't do that with mail. Futhermore, a wiki is searchable. The Collab mailing list archives are just a pain in this regard, and if at all don't produce results that would really fit the query, mildly spoken. Going to mail-archive.com helps, and even better if you happen to keep your own mail archive and use a capable mailer that can do a full body text search. Still, for collaborative editing I think a wiki is predestinated. > My (who I am seldomly working with Wikis, admittedly) > impression with Wikis is that they are not really good in exchanging > opinions about a problem, on the track to a final mutual solution. Mailing lists have the advantage to track opinions over time, by the natural sequence of mail flow and immediately visible in quote hierarchies. Wikis have the advantage of being able to group topics and rearrange things over time. Combining both cultures seems appropriate, such as putting the snippets into the wiki and discussing them on the list, giving a pointer. Summarizing the discussion in the wiki again could be another option, though I don't think that would happen frequently, developers don't do such things ;-) Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter bedevilled i18n transpositionizer. GnuPG key 0x293C05FD: 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
