WEBSITE, IN GENERAL
I traded some mails with Gavin Baumanis about website design stuff
yesterday. We had indeed suffered a miscommunication about who was forging
ahead on the plan. Gavin is hoping to start submitting patches next week on
this.
WIKI USAGE
The general sense I got from some members of the Apache community about
using a Wiki has led me to believe that the barrier to entry for community
contribution is just going to be too high to bother with. It appears that
we *can* get a Wiki, but contributors would need to be CLA-covered. And as
with the sentiment around posting our doxygenized docs, I expect that we
would have to somehow advertise the Wiki as "for developer usage only"
(work-in-progress, use-at-your-own-risk, etc). So, far too restricted to
see meaningful usage as a part of our primary website. That, plus the fact
that it would be harder to get patches against wiki-ized material, means
that I'm backing off the idea for now.
Maybe we'll start using a dev-only Wiki in the future, though. (I'd
certainly enjoy seeing the entirety of our notes directory moved to such a
thing.)
<rant>I realize that the ASF needs to dot its I's and cross its T's,
legally, but so far my experience herein has been not so glowingly positive
from a community building perspective. "No nit left unpicked", or somesuch.
I'm choosing for now to just trust that this is ultimately beneficial to
everyone -- that perhaps the result of all of this is that the ASF refines
some of its otherwise vague guidelines around such apparently disputable
topics like "releases".</rant>
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
Received on 2009-12-10 18:06:50 CET