WEBSITE, IN GENERAL I traded some mails with Gavin Baumanis about website design stuff yesterday. We had indeed suffered a miscommunication about who was forging ahead on the plan. Gavin is hoping to start submitting patches next week on this.
WIKI USAGE The general sense I got from some members of the Apache community about using a Wiki has led me to believe that the barrier to entry for community contribution is just going to be too high to bother with. It appears that we *can* get a Wiki, but contributors would need to be CLA-covered. And as with the sentiment around posting our doxygenized docs, I expect that we would have to somehow advertise the Wiki as "for developer usage only" (work-in-progress, use-at-your-own-risk, etc). So, far too restricted to see meaningful usage as a part of our primary website. That, plus the fact that it would be harder to get patches against wiki-ized material, means that I'm backing off the idea for now. Maybe we'll start using a dev-only Wiki in the future, though. (I'd certainly enjoy seeing the entirety of our notes directory moved to such a thing.) <rant>I realize that the ASF needs to dot its I's and cross its T's, legally, but so far my experience herein has been not so glowingly positive from a community building perspective. "No nit left unpicked", or somesuch. I'm choosing for now to just trust that this is ultimately beneficial to everyone -- that perhaps the result of all of this is that the ASF refines some of its otherwise vague guidelines around such apparently disputable topics like "releases".</rant> -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
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