"L. David Baron" wrote: > > On Saturday 2002-07-06 10:46 +0200, Fabian Guisset wrote: > > Alexander J. Vincent wrote: > > > > > > I'd be happy if we simply based our catalog on it. There's some serious > > > opposition to taking all of mozilla.org to ZOPE. > > > > Unless you can give me more details and/or unless you speak for > > mozilla.org, I'll just pretend I didn't see this post :-P > > So should those of us who like the current system pretend we didn't see > your plans to convert to Zope? (That's pretty much what I've been > doing.)
If you see plans to convert to Zope, it won't throw out six months of your work and make any progress on your project seem like a total waste of time and effort. > * I don't think we want a low barrier to entry. You are contradicting your earlier post, which warned against raising the bar too high. And bars should not be made of xenophobic tools--they should be measures of quality. > We want documentation to be written by people who know what they're > talking about, namely, the developers. The developers know how to > use CVS, so it's one fewer thing to learn. I'm sure the developers can handle FTP if <textarea> proves too unfamiliar. > * What kind of discussion do you want? How would it be useful? We > need a repository for reliable information that's more authoritative > than newsgroup responses. If the website replaces the newsgroups, > then we'll need something to replace the website. Readers can add comments to a document asking questions about topics that are ambiguously described or haven't but should be covered in the document. Knowledgeable people can add a few details that might have been left out or answer others' questions, leaving the answers for later visitors to read. Developers can note new changes in the code. Proofreaders can point out grammatical and spelling mistakes. Later, someone with the required permissions can verify the information in the comments and incorporate it into the main document (or a more appropriate document). Until s/he does, the non-authoritative comments will serve as an appendix to the document that just might provide the info someone needs.
