[content-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

[Jim Grisanzio]

max at bruningsystems.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I am interested in being a co-lead, and/or reviewer,
> and/or occasional contributor. 

Cool. You're in.

> I have been following
> the discussion about an articles project.  I am
> concerned about quality and making sure articles
> are up-to-date.

Good. So are we. Your participation, Max, will help ensure quality on 
multiple levels.

> I don't think there is a good way to control quality, but
> I would hope that articles are reviewed for technical
> accuracy/correctness, (and grammar???) before
> they are placed on the web site.

Yes.

> Keeping articles up-to-date is much more difficult.
> I have some updates that need to be made to the 2 articles
> I have already written, but don't have a good way to
> do the update.

I agree. But now you can put them on the content project (I just made 
you a lead), and I can bring them over to the articles page. Or just 
send to me.

> It might also be useful to categorize articles.  Maybe
> something like:
>   How-Tos
>   How does xxx work
>   War Stories (or how I got xxx working on yyy)
>   Profiles
>   Reviews
>   Applications on OpenSolaris
>   OpenSolaris Kernel
>   Drivers
>   Networking

Good.

> I am concerned about what I see in the Linux world with respect
> to articles.  You can find, let's say, 10 different articles
> about a topic, each one saying a different thing, and, very
> likely none of them describing correctly what is current.
> I guess that is bound to happen with any open source
> project, but I would like to keep the stuff on OpenSolaris
> accurate and up-to-date.
> 
> just my 2cents.
> 
> max


I think a certain amount of noise comes with a large, open community. I 
actually think that's good in some ways. We can do our best to keep the 
quality high on opensolaris.org, though.

Jim
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Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/