From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Developer's Wiki |
Date: | 2006-09-16 20:09:49 |
Message-ID: | 200609161309.50052.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Greg,
> I think the lessons of wikipedia is precisely that you *don't* want to add
> such barriers. You want to let people add stuff pretty much freely. That
> encourages people to get involved and put up information.
The other lesson of Wikipedia is that maintaining wiki quality for a generally
editable wiki requires a full-time dedicated staff. We don't even have any
volunteers who have 4 hours/week to commit to cleaning up the wiki, unless
you're volunteering.
This is *particularly* true of the TODO stuff. We simply don't want Joe User
adding their personal wishlist to the TODOs, and that's exactly what will
happen if the TODO list is world-writable. TODOs should be items which have
been hashed out here on the Hackers list, and the wiki page should list the
specification which is the general consensus.
If we had a "user documentation wiki", then *that* should be world-editable,
but again that would require community volunteers to dedicate to cleaning it
up. The developer wiki is by and for actual contributors.
--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
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