Le vendredi 07 janvier 2011 à 19:03 +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller a écrit :
[snip] > > Well, if I may, it also means duplication of effort and stale data. In > > the wiki SimpleAgenda is at version 0.41, 0.38 in the software index. I > > know I could do something about it but why should I have to ? > > Because you have two different type of users out there. One is preferring to > read > a Wiki and the other is preferring a List like SWI. It is like companies are > announcing > their new products on radio, on TV in magazines, by postal mailing, by > bulk-email etc. > > Each one could be sufficient to reach 100% of world population... Yeah, well, maybe if there were applications that the world population would be interested in :o) Look, I'm just saying that in my humble opinion, wrong information, stale documentation, dead links etc are bad marketing. I think that on the main gnustep site one application/bundle/framework is enough. Duplicating information does not create new information. [snip] > >> Maybe, you can set up some bot that reads out the Software Index and > >> updates > >> the Application Wiki? > > > > Or the other way around ? Who will decide what should be updated by a > > human being ? > > That one does not work for technical reasons. The SWI is well structured for > automatic processing while for a Wiki you may need natural language processing > or semantical network analysis to extract any useful information. > > And, the author (or any user) of a application decides what to put in the SWI. > So you can view SWI as a feed publication platform. You write messages that > get published in a New-Software-Versions-Feed (in HTML, RSS or PList format). > > The PLIst format (http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/plist.php) could allow > to > write a Software Installer application that scans a GNUstep installation and > looks > for updates. And can fetch and install them. I just wonder how that could be > done > with a Wiki approach. By using a page template like for the news page with a version, an url and other details ? > > I'm sorry but I think GNUstep's main weakness is it's lack of man power > > and I don't think this is helping... > > What do you mean with "this" in "this is not helping"? Having 2 software lists and inconsistent data. > I may get it wrong but if this discussion is becoming a discussion about SWI > and/or WIki and their benefits or problems I see this as not helping. They are > marketing and convenience tools around GNUstep. > > SWI is existing and not a new effort. The Application Wiki is existing and not > a new effort. Each one has its users and contributors. We don't invest much > time > in any of them that is missing elsewhere... You're right about that. Maybe we're not investing enough time, and if that's the case I'm guilty too. Thanks, Philippe _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
