I know I am unlikely to sway anyone, but please allow me to offer my > perspective as a brand new OpenIndiana user (but have already been > contributing to illumos-gate for the past year) as I think it is very > important for any project to get “first impressions” from people as first > impressions are what make or break any project. >
Thanks for your comments, they are very much in line with my own impressions. > > So, with that in mind: > > The outdated wiki [content], including outdated comments, is a detraction > and reflects poorly on the project. To be fair, this applies equally to the > smartos wiki as well. I almost did not use OpenIndiana at all, but decided > to give it a try anyway. Luckily, the project itself is far more > professional than the impression given the wiki. The help offered > generously on the mailing lists and IRC has been wonderful and reflects > very well on the community. > The comment section is now plagued by spam and should be disabled asap. When it comes to the Wiki and User documentation, we should treat them as a priority. I already started adding development notes but people with knowledge of administration should not be afraid to contribute and modify content that is obviously outdated. > > Hope that is helpful. I have been given access to the wiki and will try to > clean things up as I see them, but there is a significant amount of > duplication across the OI wiki and the illumos wiki which magnifies the > effort required ... > Agreed. > > With kind regards > James Blachly > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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