Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote:
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
it is the same with the current snippet page, isn't it?
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?
i am not sure. First contribution is only one aspect but maintenance is
also important and that is much easier in the wiki.
In other words: Are we really sure migration to the Wiki is the best
way? I'm uncertain about it.
we are not 100% sure but it is worth a test from my point of view. We
haven't really a huge number of snippets and the question is why. My
impression is that it is to complicate. It might be also a solution to
have some kind of snippet creator form integrated in the existing infra
structure. But then it is the question who would be able and have the
time to prepare such a form ... Or we can extend the snippet creator to
support direct import of existing snippets ...
A wiki is only one solution but quite cheap to realize ;-)
Juergen
Ciao
Frank
[1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Logging
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