On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** > But for a labor of love like this, it just feels weird. What if you didn't > have real work to do and bills to pay? Man. I feel your pain. > Well, and your point about businesses to me applies doubly to labors of love like this--I can spend time worrying about the state of CFML wiki software and either fighting with it or burn time fixing it, or I can focus on the real goal of this specific effort which is to document the crap out of OpenBD and by extension CFML, which to me in the long run will be far more beneficial to the global community efforts as a whole than being able to say "Hey look! We have a wiki that is kinda sorta approaching MediaWiki and given enough hands and enough users and enough time we might get there in the next few months|years!" At least currently that's a hard sell to me. Believe me I get where you're coming from, and it's something I struggle with in my mind pretty often. Really I do. That being said, my personal goal with this specific project is to write documentation on a wiki. I had MediaWiki up and running in all of three minutes and now I can just focus on the real goal of the effort instead of getting sucked into the ancillary issues. If this situation triggers another group of people to start kicking ass on a world-class CFML wiki then great, but that's not my personal goal at the moment and I'd much rather use the best tool for the job. And lest we forget: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page :-) Ultimately I suppose yes, in a perfect world it'd be a complete eat your own dog food situation from top to bottom. But time is short, MediaWiki is a great tool, and for now I'm going to focus on writing documentation, tutorials, cookbook recipes, etc. and try to force the "but the site isn't CFML" issue out of my mind. It ain't a perfect situation, but it is what it be and so on. -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://blog.mattwoodward.com identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
