On 26 Jun 07, at 6:46 AM 26 Jun 07, Jesse McConnell wrote:
On 6/26/07, Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 25 Jun 07, at 7:11 PM 25 Jun 07, John Casey wrote:
> I like this approach, and I think it's just a slightly more
> detailed version
> of what some of us are already trying to do when we put together
> major new
> pieces for Maven. I agree with Eric that any API or behavioral
> change should
> probably follow this process, basically anything that could change
> what the
> user experiences.
>
Yah, really just to surface the information. I know that there are
only a few of us know where everything is because we look at it
everyday but the casual contributor wouldn't have a chance. I think
this really facilitates contribution. Someone who has a particular
need can see if there is anything vaguely related to what he needs.
agreed, so much of this material been beat around on irc and the back
rooms of sleazy gin joints around the world...its good to get it all
formally pulled into one area..
What would be the mechanism for ranking these in terms of priority or
popularity or is that an concept we don't want to apply at this phase?
My primary concern would be that given the wide variety of
communication channels that maven folks operate under is this material
becoming old or stale. Wiki's are notoriously easy to let languish.
There has to be a concerted effort to make one place be the final
resting place of all this sort of information. Its super easy to pay
lipservice to this, 'oh, I'll just have the conversation on irc, or
the mailing list and go back and update that wiki page later' and not
follow through...
You're right, it requires someone looking at it everyday and I don't
mind doing that for the short term. If no one else picks up the
process and starts using it then it's a flop. But given we have no
way to show people what's actually going on in the project I think
it's a decent first attempt and better then a kick in the pants. IMO,
I think what's there on that one page would take someone 4 days of
email list sifting to find.
of course, my stated primary concern there doesn't offer a better
solution or alternative...just stating the obvious a bit
anyway, +1, I like it :)
Cool, thanks.
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