Hi, On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Pascal Van Hecke wrote: > Starting the thread at > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=midgard-user&m=100255929813056&w=2 > , I felt reluctant bringing up again the usual > sensitive points in an open source, or more generally, > in a volunteering project. > Although you started the thread, It was not your message that hit the 'sensitive spots'. I recall your message to be one of productive criticism.
> I was asking in my mail to add the annotation > possibility again to the online manual. I also think > the faq is a very good thing, thanks for all that! > But I still think that it will remain difficult to > keep up with the information flow in the mailing list. > The problem with the mailing list is that is far too > unstructured to extract information from it > afterwards, afterwards meaning: if you do not follow > it daily. (And if you DO follow it daily, you simply > do not have time left to AND work on the documentation > AND proceed with midgard development...). > Furthermore, it turns out that very few people keep > being motivated for this editorial work, eternally > having to catch up with the far more exciting > development... So I' m afraid that we 'll have to > find other means to avoid users asking the same > questions over and over again and developers having to > spend too much time on support. The above seems to be all too true, seeing the development and the coming and going of volunteers over the past few years <snip>a lot about wiki</snip> > I really feel we should give it a try and abandon the > mailinglist for a Wiki. The people on the mailinglist > are practically all techies who should not have > difficulties mastering this new medium, but I think > the problem we have now is that I'm not sure this > PhpWiki 1.2 is the right solution at this moment. So > I'm anxiously waiting for your feedback, Although I see great value in a wiki or wiki-like as you proposed, I am dead set against abandoning the mailinglist. Reason for this is that some of us can only access mail through a terminal most of the time. completely moving away from the mailinglist would mean losing contact with those people. Having said that, I see no solution for the problem you so rightly introduced: how to make sure that information from the mailinglist keeps on finding it's way into manual and FAQ's. wkr, -- Envida http://www.envida.net/ Armand A. Verstappen Graadt van Roggenweg 328 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3531 AH Utrecht tel: +31 (0)30 298 2255 Postbus 19127 fax: +31 (0)30 298 2111 3501 DC Utrecht --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
