[ic] Major changes to DEVEL CVS branch

Mike Heins interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jan 15 12:15:01 2003


Quoting Mike Heins (mike@perusion.com):
> Quoting Paul Jordan (paul@gishnetwork.com):
> > All I have to say is, out of sight, out of mind. One could post interesting
> > code, or a link to [strip] tagged content in under 60 seconds by hitting the
> > "contribute" tab in admin. As hectic as all our lives are, I am less likely
> > to search out a good home (Archives, Docs, RTFM, Forum, Wiki) for said
> > snippet, log in, cut, paste, explain... Alot of times I have something cool,
> > but don't think it is worth crowding 10000 inboxes. When I have something
> > cool, the world does not stop, and my credit card debt does not pause for
> > nobody, so I am off to the next todo item.
> > 
> > I have been doing taxes, so I have not seen the Wiki, but I most likely am
> > not going to spend 6 hours in the Wiki, however most of us are in our ADMIN
> > most of the day. Alot of us are not Interchange developers, simply people
> > trying to make their store in IC, so the urge to stop what you are doing,
> > venture out to somewhere else, log it, etc is not *as viable.
> > 
> > The contribute would not be for questions, so it would "archive" pure big
> > juicy code, snippets, helptips, etc, so we would not have to wade through
> > questions and quoted replies. Maybe the Wiki could be used to search these,
> > and/or edit these.
> > 
> > If you are to empower people, you must do it where they are, not where you
> > want them to be.
> > 
> 
> Neat idea -- however I believe that without some hoops to jump through
> you will get mostly garbage.
> 
> >From fairly long experience dealing with code contributions, the casual
> ones are rarely applicable to the real world without three times the
> amount of time they took to create to vet, check, and integrate them.
> 
> The one area I would like to do that in is for online help. Now that
> it is editable, it would be fairly easy to do a "send this entry to
> ICDEVGROUP" button that might yield some good results.
> 

I have done this in the latest CVS. When you do a help edit, you can
check a box which will send the help to the docs list. We will see
if anyone contributes. 8-)

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Mike Heins
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