Andrew, From: "Andrew Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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)
Yes that's true, please consider that it's still a work in progress. And this progress depends of community good will... > 2. Guessing that Home might be the place to start I clicked that. Then chose > "About OFBiz" only to get Same comment than above > "This page is for background information about the OFBiz project. > > OFBiz Committers Roles and Responsbilities > Best Practices for Contributors" > > What no description as to what OFBiz is, how it came to be, what businesses > it is designed to service? You may find this kinf of information in OFBiz official site : http://www.ofbiz.org/. IMO the wiki is more intended to coordonate community work and to documen OFBiz from technical and functionnal POC. > 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. You may have already discover that only the 'The Open For Business Project Wik" part of the dashboard (http://docs.ofbiz.org/dashboard.action) is *open to edit*. To edit you only have to register. We experienced some problems with the *completly open* old Wiki : lack of organisation, redundancy, update problem, open to spammners, etc. > I am guessing that Confluence has placed some restrictions on how the wiki > is presented. > I find the new wiki, um, rather dry. It's new, well will surely look better in some months... > 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? It depends on community, petition David with prayers will not do a lot here... One more time this reflects only my opinion and I'm not speaking for community... Thanks for your interest in OFBiz :o) Jacques > 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?
