Adam,
These are 2 very good examples of the Purist and Idealist styles of thinking.
While useful to some extent, my vote has to go with a more context-aware
Pragmatic style.
Adam Heath wrote:
get it.
Yeah, got it. Yo, check it! ;)
people still think that top-posting is a good thing to do. I just don't
of speech. Documents all follow a top-down layout of information. Yet
Why do people use top-posting? It doesn't follow with the natural flow
If there is a conversational flow, the in-line replies are great, especially for multiple
thoughts on multiple "threads" in a single email. It's way efficient, and cool.
If you're responding in a more general way and to a single thought I think in-line
posting is bloody annoying. Especially if someone replies to a long message way down at
the bottom and you have to scroll all over the place to see what the reply looks like.
Si Chen wrote:
Well take a look at http://docs.ofbiz.org there should be some links
to confluence there already. I was just thinking of making this docs
site the ofbiz.org site?
Um, this seems bad. Using non-free software for a free software
project? Wouldn't this be equally bad, now that ofbiz is an apache
project?
David Welton answered this pretty well. Here again I like a pragmatic approach.
I'm all for open source software, when it's available and a tenable option.
I'll be the first to admit that OFBiz, for example, is not the solution for all
problems.
I'd love to use OFBiz-based stuff instead of commercial things (even open
source based commercial things like the Atlassian products, of which Jira
actually even uses parts of OFBiz), but we just don't have the functionality on
the business/applications level in these areas nor the resources to build them
out, especially not within the time frame we need them (like immediate and
ongoing...).
Of course, once we do... ;) Then it's just an issue of making sure we can get
such things deployed on the ASF infrastructure (though I guess they're pretty
cool about new tools and such).
-David
