On 07/27/2010 08:34 AM, Björn Michaelsen wrote:
> Am Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:12:02 -0700
> schrieb Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi again...
>>
>> On 07/27/2010 03:09 AM, Björn Michaelsen wrote:
>>> I dont think we need the CC to change single links on the
>>> contributing page. Of course, we would need to get the CC involved
>>> when killing of the contributing subdomain completely.
>>
>> I disagree with this. Despite the fact that the Contributing page was
>> created mostly by members in THIS group, the links on it were put
>> there after some rather lengthy discussion by several areas. And,
>> specifically, the other areas represented here, Development, QA,
>> Marketing,etc *should* have a say in what they want linked here. I
>> actually sent an e-mail to project leads of QA and Marketing yesterday
>> asking them about this. So, we'll see what they say. You're certainly
>> entitled to you opinion but really you(we) don't control all of these
>> projects or how they feel they want to represented.
>
> We are argeeing there:
>>> As for the other departments, be it QA, Marketing or whatever it is
>>> of course up to those projects to navigate their newcomers to the
>>> most inviting page they offer.
>
> It is just the development link that I (as a dev) have a strong opinion
> about -- for reasons already named. For the others, I am just proposing
> that all projects reevaluate the pagecontent/links as most of those look
> quite dated to me too. If it turns out that other projects are also
> feeling that they cannot commit enough resources to keep pages
> up-to-date, then (not before reaching that point) we should again
> consider the action called for provocatively in subject. Sorry, if I
> where leapfrogging there.
Hi again--
OK, I think I'm reasonably OK with changing the Programming link on the
contributing page to point directly to the wiki. So I will do this
today. I still have not heard from either Marketing or QA so these will
remain for the time being.
cheers!
>
> BR,
>
> Bjoern
>
> P.S.: BTW This 16 message thread to change in the end one link is a
> huge argument for moving more content to the wiki, IMHO. And yes, we
> are still very far from having edit war problems there.
>
>
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