Re: Wiki integration and comments

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 17:33 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 17:16 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > everyone seem to be very confused about the role of yarrr comments when
> > embedded in the wiki, let alone the details of the implementation. Some
> > possibilities:
> > 
> > 1 Forum like comments (ignoring the collaborative aspects).
> > 2 A way to work on paragraph of text collaboratively and push them
> > inside the wiki text.
> > 
> > While 1 seem the most natural application and the most similar to the
> > standalone case, I'm not sure it will end up to be very useful. Wiki
> > text is supposed to be well edited so that it's easily readable and
> > provide information more quickly than a forum or mailing list. I'm not
> > sure we should encourage people to post comments, what will be the value
> > of those when the discussion is over? Will they will be useful or just
> > distract readers? For this case pushing comments in the wiki text seem
> > useless to me.
> 
> I totally disagree. I thought the way we combine both messaging system
> with a chat was the very thing that made yarrr unique, instead of just
> xchat + a wiki. The messages are used for long term discussions, and the
> chat for the people around at one specific time during the discussion.

I agree that's one of the interesting points in yarrr. I'm just not sure
that integrates well with the wiki. I could be wrong though ;)

Marco