[haiku-web] Re: Community Documentation Collaboration (Was: Add Comunity Project)
- From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:26:13 -0700
Urias McCullough wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Urias McCullough
> <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This is the very type of issue I would hope we could mitigate, even if
>> we can't eliminate it, rather than having someone post an entire
>> guide, I would prefer if they updated one of the guides already on
>> haiku-os.org and then posted links to it.
>>
>
> Replying to myself...
>
> Until there is a central location where anyone can contribute, and
> they get full attribution for their contributions (as opposed to
> editing an article with someone else's name as the "author") - I
> suspect this problem won't get any better.
>
As we discussed on IRC, it would be difficult to change the existing
documentation to what you describe here.
If you want to do this, leave what's there as is, and create a separate
realm for documentation with the new wiki-like process and rules.
> This is what makes wikipedia work. People can write large amounts of
> documentation and feel good about it - *anyone* can see their efforts
> in the history, or even query what a given user has contributed.
>
> This is also how source control works - you can very easily see
> everyone who has touched a given file, and you can find out every file
> that someone has touched.
>
> This is what makes it work guys, you can tell me I'm wrong, but I know
> because it's how I feel about myself.
>
I don't think there is right or wrong. But from my personal experience,
I would not expect any drastic increase in contributions and/or
participation. But I've been wrong in the past, so I would be wrong
again. :)
Cheers,
Jorge
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