On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Sess <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 04:39, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > {*} Exherbo Wiki. Is this in the cards? >> >> Exherbo will never have a wiki. Wikis are horrible. > > What? Wikis are entirely in keeping with Exherbo philosophy of distributed > development: in this case, distributed documentation development. > > Do you suggest alternatives? If not, what's to hypothetically halt any > Exherbo user from posting an unofficial Wiki: say, > "http://exherbo-wiki.org";? > You seem to have misunderstood our philosophy/intentions. Wikis makes it easy for random people to contribute random things, quite often of low quality.
Exherbo has every intention of making contributions (be it documentation, new packages or whatever) as easy as possible but not without a fairly strong built-in peer reviewing system. Ever noticed how often patches are improved after being discussed in #exherbo? Or how much new users repositories are improved when they submit them for review in #exherbo? *That* process is extremely important and not at all well supported by wikis that tend to be update first, (maybe) review later. We want to review first and make sure we don't help unleash even more crap on the world. And the really cool thing about this of course is that we help people learn quite a bit in a short while and help raise the quality of all their work even if we only review part of it. Regards, Bryan Østergaard _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
