Re: Tech Docs and Consultants

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 12:54, Scott Lamb wrote:
>
> On Friday, Apr 25, 2003, at 10:16 US/Central, Robert Treat wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 08:51, justin(at)postgresql(dot)org wrote:
> >> There was a private mailing list that the people who volunteered
> >> subscribed to.
> >
> > I'd just like to put forth the opinion that the private list/discussion
> > is the reason why it never got off the ground.
>
> I have to agree with this. I just don't understand why the websites are
> developed so differently from source code. In fact, I just don't really
> understand how people get involved in improving the website when
> there's not even a public mailing list. I've complained about problems
> with the website before and offered to help fix them, in whatever other
> mailing list it's spilled over to. I don't have the time to
> consistently pump stuff out...but that's never a problem in source
> projects. I can contribute a patch, wander off, contribute another, and
> my contributions are still welcome. I'd really like to see all the
> websites in the same place, with a publically accessible repository,
> with commit emails, with public mailing lists. Developed like a source
> code project. Can Bricolage (or whatever CMS system you're leaning
> toward now) do that?
>

This is not a technical problem, it is a management problem.

Robert Treat