Jacques,
Just one question... well three actually?
Who does speak for the community?
How does the community decide?
Is there some kind of vote or what?
Ian
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
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
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