Op ma, 19-06-2006 te 09:10 +0300, schreef Dotan Cohen: > Also, and this may sound rediculous but it's true, having both the > wiki and a seperate FAQ site is two sites supporting f-spot, rather > than one. Even if they have mostly the same information. That's > important for people googling solutions or considering a switch to > fspot. I, for one, have reservations about switching to a product with > very little in the way of online documentation. This will add to the > amount of online documentation resources available to the community.
While I appreciate your enthousiasm, you should be carefull with this. As an example, in the Ubuntu community I see more and more problems originating from 'third-party' documentation. Sometimes it's someone's ego, sometimes they just don't know how to contribute to the official sources, but documentation scattered around the web is a problem for a number of reasons: * Unfortunately, a lot of howto's and tutorials are of questionable quality and advocate bad practice solutions. There's no way for the project to control this. * Maintainability is a problem. New versions of the software require updated documentation. * Almost never are these howto's and tutorials available in more than one language. The official documentation for Ubuntu gets translated by the translation teams. F-Spot has not translated its homepage I think, but it could in the future. * Last but not least, duplicate efforts are often a waste of time, especially when the official source for documentation could have been improved and/or the alternative source is harder to find. Some alternative sources of documentation don't suffer from most or all of these problems, but I know that all these problems are serious for the Ubuntu community. I don't think other projects are different. > I don't want to replace the wiki, rather to make a seperate source of > information that is more concice and easier to digest. Why not add some sort of FAQ page to the wiki in the form you envision? If people really need it, I think you would certainly be allowed to work on that. -- Martijn Vermaat [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mvermaat/ _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
