discuss: staff situation and volunteers needed
Subject:
Re: [discuss] staff situation and volunteers needed
From:
"Sergiusz Pawlowicz" ####@####.####
Date:
25 May 2008 14:59:48 +0100
Message-Id: <aea46f8f0805250705l5b4509fby9b44b821082b4dad@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary
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>
> On 25 mai 08, at 17:53, jdd wrote:
>
>> Long time ago I was advocating a LDP wiki, but now than there are so many
>> wiki's all around, making one more may not be so good an idea...
>
> A wiki is not an end, it is a means.
Who will tranform wiki mess into proper documentation?
We have no volunteers to review even ready to go and written
in docbook books, an effort to transform it from wiki is much harder.
> Having a wiki guaranties that newcomers will be contributing faster than
> with other formats (docBook) etc. Because the wiki paradigm has become so
> popular.
If wiki paradigm is suitable for writing technical docs,
why wikipedia is not currently full of beautiful technical books?
Newcomers are newcomers, they simply are not ready to
write anything useful. If they cannot understand simple
docbook format, I cannot believe they can write a good book.
SP
