On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 07:29:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote > On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:20:11 -0500, Dave Phillips > <dlphilp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > Time is getting tighter for me these days, so I'm not always able to > > update the Linux soundapps sites as often as I'd like. As most of you > > know, I'm also not particularly pleased with the construction of the > > pages (plain old manually edited HTML), but I figure the present > > arrangement is serviceable enough to last a little while longer. > > > > Recently I've been considering how to update the sites more > > frequently, and I've come up with this idea: > > > > I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to assign the upkeep of > > certain sections of the pages to members of the community. Basically, > > you would ask to maintain a section, I'd say yea or nay (with about a > > 99.99% probability of a Yea), then whenever you wanted to update the > > section you'd send it to me and I'd put it on-line. It's getting to the > > point where I'm no longer able to decently cover every aspect of Linux > > audio software development by myself, and I need to find a way to more > > efficiently update the pages. So if you're interested in maintaining a > > section (or more) of the Linux soundapps pages, please write to me > > off-list and I'll go into more detail. Btw, you'll get credit in the > > section header. > > > > Does this sound at all feasible ? > > > > Best, > > > > dp > > > > > > Dave, > I think that if this would help you then it's a good idea. There > are probably 5-10 folks out here, myself included, that would be > willing and happy to help out. > > As a Wiki user of less than 24 hours (ruccus.org - I was looking > for someplace to post a few Linux made tunes as I don't have a > server) I'm impressed by how much can get done on a Wiki. I would be > a bit concerned about turning your site into a completely open Wiki system > where anyone could put anything there as you have kept up a high > quality level and I wouldn't want to see that deteriorate over time wikis don't seem to suffer that much from deterioration in practice - the wikipedia is the canonical example of a well maintained high quality wiki. wiki votes++ :) dave
