[haiku-web] Re: Fwd: [General] Add Comunity Project
- From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:41:09 -0700
Howdy,
Urias McCullough wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> All being said, I do have the feeling that you want to force Drupal to
>> behave exactly like a wiki, and I don't see why this is necessary. If
>> what you want is a wiki -- with all its benefits and drawbacks -- then I
>> would say go ahead and use one. I say this with the best of intentions,
>> btw. :)
>>
>
> Yes, this is what I personally want - because for collaborative
> documentation efforts, like source control, peer review of changes is
> very, very useful, IMO. In an open-source community, changes that
> occur without any review can tend to become an issue later down the
> road. If our intention is to build such a system, I believe the system
> should provide as many review points as possible for all collaborators
> to use for maintaining the high quality documentation that we desire.
>
> Letting the website content get changed by anyone, and then having few
> ways of noticing/finding those changes on a daily basis is possibly
> going to decrease the quality of website content IMO. Collaborative
> systems are extremely susceptible to spam - and right now on our
> website, that spam only comes in the form of comments - and is
> fortunately very easy to maintain as such - without enough controls up
> front to mitigate this potential issue, I suspect it can become
> troublesome.
>
I will not argue about preference, because we all prefer something
different. But let me challenge some of your assertions.
First, why do you imply that you cannot achieve collaborative
documentation, peer review, revision control, etc. with Drupal? Drupal
itself, one of the most thriving and successful open source project uses
it, so there must be something to it, right? :) I think that not only is
it feasible, but that in many ways it can be much better than a wiki.
Also, why do you keep bringing up the issue of letting content be
changed by anyone, as if this was a Drupal-specific problem? And, as I
said, permissions in Drupal are very fine-grained to the node level, so
this is a non-issue. Whatever concerns you may have about spam or
malicious posts, you would also have with a wiki or any other system.
Anyway, Urias my friend :) , not trying to be picky or nasty, but I
think that your preference for a wiki is not letting you see what Drupal
can do objectively. Besides, why not build on what we already have,
improving it gradually, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel?
Cheers,
Jorge
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