Re: Proposal for building knowledgebase website.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]
> Sent: 09 June 2005 22:52
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Proposal for building knowledgebase website.
>
> Dave,
>
> > Count you out why? Is it the fact that I'm advocating
> keeping everything
> > in one site, or that I'm suggesting we don't need advanced
> features like
> > customisable workflows or other whizz-bang features? What
> exactly do you
> > want that you don't think you will get from what I'm suggesting?
>
> In a nutshell?  A place where someone who wants to submit and
> article can
> do so in < 10 minutes (*including* any markup time).   A place where
> someone wanting to translate an article can do it in
> point-and-click-and-translate time.  A place where someone can easily
> locate the article which covers their problem if it exists.

Yes, all of which is important, and none of which I don't believe can be
achieved in the way I've suggested.

> Barring that, I'm waiting for at least an acknowledgement
> from you that
> there's a direct relationship between easy-to-use and
> number-of-contributors.  If you're convinced that there's no
> relationship
> at all, then I don't think we can communicate.

I never argued that there wasn't a relationship - in fact, I explicitly
agreed that we do need more people to be involved! What I said was, that
from a development point of view, getting an easy to use joe-public
interface should be secondary to getting the basic system up and
running. Kinda like not waiting for pgAdmin to be released before
releasing PostgreSQL.

Regards, Dave