On 09/11/09 23:00, Viktor Szakáts wrote:
Hi Teo,
Please think about this, and try to find a way you can help, after
all, you
got an excellent, stable, robust, feature-rich and industrial level
product *for
free*, which can help to even create profit (cash), save time (which
is also
money). In such case it's not devil to ask to return some of these
benefits
to the product itself to keep it alive and well on the long run. I'm
sure it's
everyone's interest to not let the project just vanish.
Viktor,
I'll start from now on, to check the Harbour phpBB Harbour forum to
give support.
Why not to use the MediaWiki facility that SF offers ?, Probably it
will be a very good way to centralize the documentation/support
efforts, also to store there (a copy) the documentation work that
April is currently doing and start to contributing there to
enhancing/updating it.
Overall, I think the medium (= software) is not a significant issue here.
IMO if there are users seeking help and users offering help, they will
be able to work either on a mailing list or a forum, or a wiki, or chat,
google wave, or anything which makes it possible to communicate.
If such community is built and we know actual experiences from actual
contributors, we can start to think about how to make it better, move it
to a medium which is easier to work with, faster, sleeker, easier to
search, whatever, but we should stop sinking back into a 'tool war' all
the time.
As for a wiki, we already have one inside the Trac app on sf.net, ready
to use since quite some time. I can also enable MediaWiki with a few clicks
(I don't know about its performance), but by itself these won't solve any
problems, so before I do, I'd suggest to settle on forum vs. mailing list
topic.
BTW, a very nice start would be to cleanup our Wikipedia article, as
by its current state it isn't too informative, it's outdated and by far
doesn't convey any of the strength of Harbour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_(software)
Brgds,
Viktor
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Why is the user forum not even mentioned on the Harbour web site?
It will see little use if nobody knows about it.
If I did not read this ML then I would never have found it. :-(
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