Ah, should clarify a point: I wasn't arguing for a completely unstructured environment, just one organized by scope and topic. Break it down, for example, into IoC Container, App-level Configuration and Processing, Pages, Components, Forms, Built-in Components, Integration with Hibernate/Spring/etc, Third-Party Components, and then have the users that are interested in contributing to a topic discuss and organize it into its various subtopics (via mailing list). Once a fairly clear picture of a section has been developed, that section and its subsections are opened up to the community, for existing content to be copied over and new content to be written.
Timothy S. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Don Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4 Sep 2008, at 17:05, Timothy Sweetser wrote: > >> When people only have an hour a day, and may only write a paragraph or >> two, I think that works against us. You decrease the contribution pool and >> increase the amount of effort required to get somewhere. > > That's a fair point. The sort of thing I was talking about may require more > central steering than is possible with piecemeal contributions from a large > group. > > That said, a mechanism already exists to collect isolated contributions on a > variety of topics from a wide range of people, namely the existing wiki. And > good luck to anyone trying to wrap a narrative structure around the > disparate collection of HOWTO-like snippets in your typical open-source > project wiki. The only kind of book that could result from such an exercise > would be one of those "cookbook"-style books, the ones that catalog a large > number of free-standing techniques. Perhaps pragmatism should dictate that > that is what is aimed for here. > > Regards, > > Don. > > This message has been scanned for content and viruses by the DIT Information > Services E-Mail Scanning Service, and is believed to be clean. > http://www.dit.ie > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
