On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 06:19:37 +1100 Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/8 IneedAname <wineap...@googlemail.com>: > > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 00:10:59 +1100 > > Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> A wiki is likely to be highly unsuccessful for AppDB when the focus is > >> on test data. > > > > I'm thing about the notes made by the app maintainers. > > Not the whole AppDB. > > Then it's just wasted effort. There is no benefit in turning the > Notes/HOWTO system into a wiki. > > I can think of one possible benefit. There are a lot of apps without maintainers, and there might be users of those apps who would be willing take a few minutes to post bits of useful information in a wiki, but don't want the responsibility of being a maintainer. Sure, they could just post info in a comment, but user comments are buried at the bottom of the page and not in a useful order for finding information quickly. The same goes for comments in test reports--I've found information on needed tweaks buried several reports down from the most recent. -- Rosanne DiMesio <dime...@earthlink.net>
