Hi Juergen, > with our codesnippets.services.openoffice.org we have useful resource to > find some useful snippets. But the contribution is from my point of view > not easy enough. Although Tom Schindl did a tremendous job to set up the > environment and infra structure and Paolo Mantovani who provides the > excellent Snippet Creator i would like to suggest that we move the > examples, snippets etc. into the wiki.
Wikis are a cool thing, but I'm actually not sure they're the best solution for each and everything. Rony already mentioned some things the Wiki is lacking, there certainly are more. One example: Try to copy'n'paste a macro from e.g. [1] to your Basic editor - you'll find there are a lot of line numbers, and too much line breaks. This means you need to manually adjust the macro before you can use it. Now what is more expensive - somebody investing a little additional effort while contributing, or everybody investing additional effort while using? I'm sure all those problems in the Wiki can be solved, but IMO we should actually do so before migrating to the Wiki. Alternatively (and perhaps better and less expensive in terms of work to be invested), we should think about lowering the hurdles for contribution with the existing snippet creator. What about some semi-automated way to contribute, to bypass the bottle neck of a single "moderator"? What about integrating a "submit" functionality into the snippet creator? What about integrating the snippet creator into the next OOo release? In other words: Are we really sure migration to the Wiki is the best way? I'm uncertain about it. Ciao Frank [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Logging -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
