Hi Peter, 2011/1/3 Peter Schuller <peter.schul...@infidyne.com>
> > Good feedback. Thanx. I guess I'm used to reading wikis on github as > > being the official project home pages but I can see your p.o.v. > > I'm not taking a position specifically for this thread (only sifted > through it, and I haven't had that particular problem with ccw), but > here is another POV: > > Ever since Sourceforge became popular and started the project hosting > thing, I have continually been annoyed when (1) people link to and (2) > google results prefer the sf/github/bitbucket/gcode/whatever page > instead of the manually maintained project page. > > The reason is that they are essentially boilerplate that waste my > time, if I am not actively knowledgable about the project already. > Since all projects have the same structure, you essentially know > nothing just by looking at the project summary. You have to dig around > a bit to get a feel for whether it's a live, whether you're in the > right place for documentation and whether the community is > "elsewhere". > > A similar effect is what you get with projects that use maven to > generate a boilerplate website. You don't know whether it's actually > filled in, and whether it is worth clicking around to find real > information. > > A manually maintained project website, even if completely > non-fashionable, on the other hand gives me an instant feel for the > project. News items on the front page indicate liveness, manually > hand-picked links and decided structure hopefully gives a good crash > course/crash intro as to what it is etc. > FYI, the main page of ccw is manually maintained and contains up to date information wrt current plugin status. That's maybe why you didn't have to /specifically/ complain 'bout ccw itself ;-) > > Again, just another POV. Take it with a grain of salt. But know that > I'm speaking *as a developer*, just not as a developer *of those > things* that I am trying to find/use/read about. > > -- > / Peter Schuller > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
