Posted by
David E. Jones on
Jun 27, 2006; 10:58pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/using-confluence-as-the-official-ofbiz-org-site-tp168937p168941.html
Adam,
These are 2 very good examples of the Purist and Idealist styles of thinking. While useful to some extent, my vote has to go with a more context-aware Pragmatic style.
Adam Heath wrote:
> get it.
Yeah, got it. Yo, check it! ;)
> people still think that top-posting is a good thing to do. I just don't
> of speech. Documents all follow a top-down layout of information. Yet
> Why do people use top-posting? It doesn't follow with the natural flow
If there is a conversational flow, the in-line replies are great, especially for multiple thoughts on multiple "threads" in a single email. It's way efficient, and cool. If you're responding in a more general way and to a single thought I think in-line posting is bloody annoying. Especially if someone replies to a long message way down at the bottom and you have to scroll all over the place to see what the reply looks like.
> Si Chen wrote:
>> Well take a look at
http://docs.ofbiz.org there should be some links
>> to confluence there already. I was just thinking of making this docs
>> site the ofbiz.org site?
>
> Um, this seems bad. Using non-free software for a free software
> project? Wouldn't this be equally bad, now that ofbiz is an apache
> project?
David Welton answered this pretty well. Here again I like a pragmatic approach. I'm all for open source software, when it's available and a tenable option. I'll be the first to admit that OFBiz, for example, is not the solution for all problems.
I'd love to use OFBiz-based stuff instead of commercial things (even open source based commercial things like the Atlassian products, of which Jira actually even uses parts of OFBiz), but we just don't have the functionality on the business/applications level in these areas nor the resources to build them out, especially not within the time frame we need them (like immediate and ongoing...).
Of course, once we do... ;) Then it's just an issue of making sure we can get such things deployed on the ASF infrastructure (though I guess they're pretty cool about new tools and such).
-David