[haiku-web] Re: Making guides and essential information easily accessible

Urias McCullough said on Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:09:00 -0800
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> > With regards to the desire to use a wiki instead, it is possible to 
> > add
> > to this system the ability to use medwiki formatting tags, and 
> > still
> > enjoy the flexbility of HTML/CSS where needed, together with the 
> > added
> > functions that Drupal provides. So the wiki thing is a possibility 
> > that
> > can be addressed.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > On a broader perspetive, the Documents section of the website has 
> > become
> > too scattered IMO, filled with a lot of unmaintained documents many 
> > of
> > which are out of date. I think this is due in great part to the
> > approach of having individually submitted and owned articles, which
> > relies on a single individual, thus becoming prone to resulting in
> > abandonment.
> 
> Which is exactly why I recommend a wiki... supporting wiki tags isn't
> good enough, we need a place where ANYONE can contribute at any time
> and easily add/split pages if required.

And all that is perfectly doable in Drupal, and much more way beyond of 
what wiki offer. That being said, I am not trying to push Drupal on 
anyone. If you guys feel something different is better, that's totally 
fine with me.

My focus for now is to finish the site to enable the tranlation of the 
user guide. If eventually the system is deemed suited for other docs, 
that's good; if not, that's fine too. :)

The other observation that I made with regards to the Haiku docs can be 
summarized by this thought: IMO, the status of our documentation is a 
manifestation of the approach of individually submitted/owned/
maintained that we have used; it may be worth trying collectively 
maintained docs, so that all the burden does not fall on a single 
individual. That's all I wanted to say. :)

Cheers,

Jorge


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