[openbeos] Re: The Wiki (or MediaWiki-powered semi-wiki)
- From: "Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:25:18 -0700
Waldemar Kornewald wrote:
On 9/30/06, Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki) <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The problem with the new website is that it does not have a good front
end; all the information is dumped together, and not organized in a way
that makes it easy for different types of people to find the kind of
information that they need.
The most important end-user content is directly accessible. The
Development and Collaborate (or Community or Partners?) sections are
more separate and I think we could improve them by adding a second
navbar to those sections.
What exactly do you think is missing or too inaccessible for
end-users? The community links? A list of features? Maybe the problem
is that much end-user content does not yet *exist*? Feel free to start
writing. ;)
Waldemar, you just don't get it, do you? There is plenty of information
in the new website; too much information if you asked me, and some of it
of dubious value. And it is disorganized and difficult to find.
I also have a problem with the general notion that a single person can
just go and change whatever he/she wants, as you have been doing, for
example, with the menus. What thought are you giving into these changes,
if any? What if I (or anybody else, for that matter) start making
changes to the menus because I think they are not right? Where does it end?
The problem is that you do not have a plan that has been agreed upon.
You installed Drupal, and had an army of well intended contributors
sweep for content and dumped it all into the site. Little thought was
given into the organization of the site, what menu structure it should
have, about navigation, looks, message or how it should be maintained.
Honestly, I am very reluctant to do anything because I do not like how
things are being done. Specifically, the fact that you do things at
will, without notice of any kind (like deleting forums in the old
website; making changes to the menu structure, switching to the new
website all of a sudden, etc.). That's not my idea of teamwork.
I like the menu structure that Michael Phipps just proposed; I think
that would be a good starting point. Btw, similar proposals were made,
but they went into deaf ears.
BTW, what are the results of your developer evaluation (those ten or
so questions about what Haiku means to the developers)?
What does this have to do with what we are discussing?
Koki
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