On 9/27/07, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/26/07, Tomasz Pik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Example - please, try to find out how to skip executing of tests > > during build starting from http://maven.apache.org > > OK, I'll bite... > starting at http://maven.apache.org > on the left, click on Wiki > scroll down to Children, click on FAQs, see its not there > click on "previously answered questions" (or click back and click on FAQs-1) > oh look, there it is -- Testing "How do I skip unit tests when > building a project?"
The fact that people can't find it, and are obviously dedicated enough to the project to join the mailing list, proves that the navigation is insufficient. > Admittedly, I'm not sure why we have 2 FAQ pages in the Wiki, plus > another FAQ on the main Maven site. But I also don't think this is all > that horrible. Obviously you can't expect to find every answer this > "easily" but common questions should be. So the next step seems (to me > at least) to be determining "what are those common questions", as I > mentioned in Brian's thread on improving site docs. This is something > that users like yourself must participate in if we hope to have any > chance of success in this effort. Why not merge them? > (Also if you Google for "maven skip unit test" there's a number of > hits right away. I personally feel that answers found via Google are > no less valid than others, especially if you add the > "site:maven.apache.org" directive. To say nothing of all the hits in > the mail list archive if you search for this.) If you have to use google to search a website, the navigation is broken. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
