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19 Apr 2026 16:26:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POVray Wiki  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 25 Oct 2007 15:18:34
Message: <4720ec0a@news.povray.org>
andrel escribió:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:20:22 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Henderson escribió:
>>>> We can break things down by POV version, for example; that would give
>>>> us distinct discussion areas for 3.6, 3.7, and 4.0.
>>> If you want a discussion area, use this news server. The wiki should be
>>> used to document stuff. Ideas included, but still, not a discussion in
>>> terms of a "conversation". Don't let it morph into a "forum".
>>
>> Actually, I agree with this idea - I phrased that badly, really - I 
>> was thinking more in terms of distinct coverage of specific versions.
>>
>> (All one needs to do is read my comments on the Inkscape mailing list 
>> to see that I really am a proponent of "the right tool for the job", 
>> and Wikis are not for discussion but for collaborative documentation).
>>
> 
> A partly agree, but there is nothing to document yet on POV4, mainly 
> because it does not exist yet. A newsgroup is better to discuss things, 
> but it also means that all comments are scattered around in the 
> discussion tree. I'd like a place where we can collect all opinions and 
> possibly the consensus reached, if any. That would mean that there will 
> be several pages each discussing a specific topic that everybody can 
> alter, but with the 'restriction' that nobody alters somebody else's 
> comments. And where everybody preferably not even reacts to the other 
> comments, but plainly states their own point of view.

Exactly, I agree. The discussion is better on a newsgroup/forum/thing, 
and the ideas getting summarized in a wiki (minus flamewars :P).


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