[ntp:questions] Re: [ntp: questions] Twiki, answers,faq ?????

Vernon Schryver vjs at calcite.rhyolite.com
Sat Aug 30 02:35:08 UTC 2003


In article <mailman.22.1062188203.1841.questions at ntp.org>,
Brad Knowles  <brad.knowles at skynet.be> wrote:

>>                 However, what does irk me is what seems to be excessive
>>  evangelical zeal in marketing twiki to the public.
>
>	I don't see any evidence of "excessive evangelical zeal in 
>marketing twiki".

That's disingenuous.

>	We have been telling people about twiki, because it has not been 
>well publicized up until now.  We have been offering twiki as a way 
>that individual people can provide their own direct contribution to 
>the documentation, in a central location, and using the provided 
>tools to make this reasonably easy and clean.
>
>	Moreover, the page can be edited and updated in place, without 
>bothering people with copy after copy of text that is slightly 
>different.

That is itself "excessive evangelical zeal in marketing twiki." 
If you were not in the twiki marketing biz, you would just use it and
perhaps post occassional pointers to twinkie FAQ or whatever it is.

Never mind that committee documentation is always even worse than
committee code.


Vernon Schryver    vjs at rhyolite.com



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