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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice team is looking for webmasters
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-10-31 9:43:23
Message-ID: 200810311043.24070.zander () kde ! org
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On Friday 31. October 2008 09:18:05 Mark Ziegler wrote:
> The wiki branch fits in techbase as well in my opinion. See
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects . Each project could find its place here.
> The benefit would be that there is no need for additional installs and
> maintenance.

I'm a bit puzzled by your continued suggestions to move wiki.koffice.org to 
techbase/Projects.  Maybe you missed the history of how projects ended up 
using it :)
When techbase was created (long after wiki.koffice.o existed) the only goal 
was to have all the technical information for sysadmins, integrators, distros 
etc in one place instead of scattered all over.

Projects like kdeedu quickly realized that this was a usable wiki (compared to 
alternatives existing at that time) and they put their information up; 
quickly this was positioned under the Projects dir because it was recognized 
that mixing todo lists and work in progress info with the rest of the 
techbase content was counter productive.

Even with 'Projects' sub structure the mixing of content that is for a future 
release with content that is useful specifically because its about released 
software is at best confusing. People that search (using google) would most 
probably not pick up the difference if they find a page detailing some 
usecases written down for a future software release.

The bottom line here is that projects like kdeedu are using techbase because 
there is nothing more appropriate for them.  While KOffice has the luck to 
have a friend that offers webhosting and we *do* have a wiki. One that is 
maintenance free, I must add.

So, to sum up, suggesting that wiki.koffice.org moves to techbase is ignoring 
history, is ignoring that the Projects/ subdir is a shoehorn fit in the first 
place and is ignoring that it is work to move the content off of a system 
that works just fine with zero maintenance.

Thanks for reading :)
-- 
Thomas Zander

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