Re: [boost] [IBD] Request for Comment, Objectives

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-08 19:26:08

Jake Voytko wrote:
> I did not suggest that we become Ubuntu.. please don't put words in my mouth
> ;). What we *should* do is take what works from the most successful
> communities. Go to their front page, and you see people smiling, and you
> also see the left nav essentially screaming "Develop! Help out!" I don't
> think it's any mistake that distrowatch.com lists them as the most popular
> Linux distribution. You're wanted there, and they make that clear on the
> front page as one of the most noticeable set of icons. If the goal is to
> have people be involved with the documentation, try to get cues from other
> projects that have big documentation communities. What did they do to get
> this way?

Whatever they did, it's probably not the quality of the documentation 
that made them successful (randomly picked example: 
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/keeping-safe/C/users.html found under 
"Keeping Your Computer Safe" doesn't say a single word about password 
quality (and there would be many other things to say in the context of 
user management)).

Boost isn't in a popularity contest. I don't see any point in referring 
to the success of the Ubuntu community as long as their (documentation) 
results look pretty sad.

Regards,
m