List membership (2)

While futzing with the list membership database these days
(subscription is 
now moderated, for a while) I noticed that there are over
500 addresses 
subscribed to this list.

Five *hundred*. That's huge. 

It may be that most folks are subscribed from when they were
real newbies 
needing a little guidance and are now lurking -- the fact
that people come 
out of the woodwork in contentious threads suggests this --
or that we 
secretly have lots and lots of software quality
researchers.

In either case, I'd like to try to mobilize such a large
group of people in 
some way. Along the lines of getting-people-started I'd
suggest and encourage 
people to go to http://techbase.kd
e.org/Contribute and see what we can 
improve there; make it as comprehensive as we can. It's a
wiki, after all.

And no, adding "[ade] is a doody-head" is not
useful additional information 
for new KDE contributors. They'll find out soon enough.
MUHAHAHA.


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On Saturday 02 June 2007 09:54:48 am Adriaan de Groot
wrote:
> While futzing with the list membership database these
days (subscription is
> now moderated, for a while) I noticed that there are
over 500 addresses
> subscribed to this list.
>
> Five *hundred*. That's huge.
>
> It may be that most folks are subscribed from when they
were real newbies
> needing a little guidance and are now lurking -- the
fact that people come
> out of the woodwork in contentious threads suggests
this -- or that we
> secretly have lots and lots of software quality
researchers.
>
> In either case, I'd like to try to mobilize such a
large group of people in
> some way. Along the lines of getting-people-started I'd
suggest and
> encourage people to go to http://techbase.kd
e.org/Contribute and see what
> we can improve there; make it as comprehensive as we
can. It's a wiki,
> after all.
Hey Adrian, 
So how should we go about doing these improvements?  I
remember a mail(or 
maybe blog) from you some days ago on what is appropriate
for inclusion into 
techbase. 
The wiki being what it is invites random edits so I'm
assuming that this page 
is OK to edit to our whims. What happens in the event of
editing that another 
page needs creating? Do we add it to techbase or to
wiki.kde.org for cleanup 
and _then_ move to techbase?
>
> And no, adding "[ade] is a doody-head" is not
useful additional information
> for new KDE contributors. They'll find out soon enough.
MUHAHAHA.
There goes my bright idea 


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On Saturday 02 June 2007, Orville Bennett wrote:
> The wiki being what it is invites random edits so I'm
assuming that this
> page is OK to edit to our whims.

yes; there is a group of us that monitors all changes to the
wiki via rss 
though, so there is oversight... even if it's not visible
from your end =)

> What happens in the event of editing that 
> another page needs creating? Do we add it to techbase
or to wiki.kde.org
> for cleanup and _then_ move to techbase?

we usually just author it directly on techbase.

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On Sunday 03 June 2007, Orville Bennett wrote:
> The wiki being what it is invites random edits so I'm
assuming that this
> page is OK to edit to our whims. What happens in the
event of editing that
> another page needs creating? Do we add it to techbase
or to wiki.kde.org
> for cleanup and _then_ move to techbase?

As Aaron wrote, things which clearly fall within the charter
of techbase tend 
to be constructed there. Maybe if a topic is arguable or
it's very fuzzy how 
you would go about writing it up you would do it on wiki.k.o
to avoid it 
catching any attention.

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