David, This is so difficult because I know you care passionately about OFBiz and have put a huge amount of effort into both the code and the documentation and I am not forgetting the contribution made by Andy and all the rest of the community.
I am also deeply aware that OFBiz is a truly open source project and that we should be grateful for all the contributions that have been received. Having said that I think we can help make it even better by giving our input which should be seen as constructive. So I dutifully followed your link: 1. The list is in alpha order. I think it should be in read order. (i.e. the order it is recommended to read the items) 2. Guessing that Home might be the place to start I clicked that. Then chose "About OFBiz" only to get "This page is for background information about the OFBiz project. OFBiz Committers Roles and Responsbilities <-- email spellchecker picked up a typo here Best Practices for Contributors" (I would have corrected the typo if I could find an edit button/link) What no description as to what OFBiz is, how it came to be, what businesses it is designed to service? 3. Back to Home. Ah reference to OLD wiki. Click "here". Now this looks more like a wiki. Nice list of topics on the left and page text on the right and I can see where to click to make contributions at the bottom of the page. The new wiki doesn't seem to have and edit to click. I am guessing that Confluence has placed some restrictions on how the wiki is presented. I find the new wiki, um, rather dry. I hope you get my drift. Please can we have a wiki that looks like a wiki. Does the wiki have to be on Apache? Kind regards, Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: David E. Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 January 2007 08:18 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OFBiz/opentaps as a small business accounting package? Is there something wrong with the current OFBiz wiki linked to below? http://docs.ofbiz.org/pages/listpages-dirview.action?key=OFBIZ -David On Jan 18, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Leon Torres wrote: > I also believe it would be worthwhile to experiment with an open > ofbiz wiki. As the ofbiz community continues to grow, we will > certainly attain the critical mass necessary to make such a thing > work. > > For instance, we've authored a bunch of cookbooks in .txt format > about specific tricks and how-to's in OFBIZ: > > http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/tutorials.php > > Unfortunately contributing to those is hard because it takes an > investment in time to read, verify, and update the documents on our > end. If they were in the form of an open wiki, it would be far > easier to expand on them. > > - Leon > > > Florin Jurcovici wrote: >> IMO, an open wiki is the right thing to do. Even if I had some >> experience which I'd like to share, if the wiki is closed or >> restricted, I cannot. Some maintainers should review docs >> occasionally and correct or delete them if they are not OK, maybe >> draw an outline of the documentation at the beginning then let >> whoever is willing to fill the pages. But IMO a closed/restricted >> wiki is not the way to go. >> --Florin Jurcovici >> ------------------ >> Why do psychics have to ask you for your name? -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.6/646 - Release Date: 23/01/2007 03:36 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.6/646 - Release Date: 23/01/2007 03:36 ***************************************************************** This email has been checked by the altohiway Mailcontroller Service *****************************************************************
