On 8/25/05, ir. ing. Jan Dockx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trust me, I love the work you're doing. And I don't want to make > enemies.
I'm standing on the sidelines on this particular issue, but it is worth making a point here ... people who end up making major contributions to the open source community tend not to pay any attention to "we've always done it this way" sorts of limitations, and go do their own thing. In the context of the current discussion, you are making a *horrendously* incorrect assumption. Why do you *care* if the existing MyFaces developers think a wiki is the right way to accumulate sufficient useful documentation in the short term? Just do it. If your idea works ... that is, we see MyFaces users gather together and actually create significant quantities of documentation of significant quality, the very concept will catch on like wildfire. >From what I know of the PHP community, this certainly seems to be possible. On the other hand, if nobody contributes, you will have turned out to be one of the many idealists who have a great idea for what someone *else* should do, but nobody else buys in to doing the actual grung work. The assumption that whatever user-developed wiki based documentation *must* be blessed by the MyFaces developers as "official" is ridiculous -- *please* go create the documentation that you, and other MyFaces users, need!!!!! I can vouch for the fact that the MyFaces developers are "smarter than the average bear" (yes, dating myself to Yogi Bear cartoons :-). If what you create causes a groundswell of participation, the MyFaces developers would be foolish to ignore it. On the other hand, maybe nobody else other than you actually cares enough to contrbute to this effort. Then, it's perfectly legitimate for the MyFaces developers to switch over to a totally different (yes, still US-centric :-) TV commercial paradigm, and ask "where's the beef?" For the last year or so, I've taken on the personal mantra (related to open source involvement) that "code speaks louder than words". In the global context of making open source a globally used technology, documentation is at *least* as important as code. So, where's the beef? Craig McClanahan
