[geeklog-devel] An observation as a semi-developer/user

[Blaine Lang]

Totally agree!

Do we have a forum that we can use?

How about a FAQ Plugin to organize the most recent questions as well that is
integrated into the GL search?
I am just putting the finishing touches on this one - see my site
(www.langfamily.ca) for a demo. It's 99% done just testing now.

I know one reason we were holding back was that we would need to convert all
the existing stories to forum topics.
I could write such a tool - but do we really need to wait.

Blaine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Whittenburg" <me at jasonwhittenburg.com>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] An observation as a semi-developer/user


> I wouldn't kill him...  I do agree...
>
> I never liked the fact the the geeklog.net (aka geeklog.sourceforge.net)
> was posting peoples problems will Geeklog.  A forum would be better for
> that.
>
> To say again in PHP terms "+1"
>
> -Jason
>
>
> Simon Lord said:
> > Secret is out Tony, should we kill Rob?
> >
> > On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 09:36 PM, Rob Griffiths wrote:
> >
> >> Greeting, GL Dev Team...
> >>
> >> Something's been bugging me about www.geeklog.net for a while, but I
> >> couln't quite figure out what it was.  Tonight, though, I believe I've
> >>  identified what the source of my bother was:  I do not think
> >> www.geeklog.net is sending a good message about the program to any
> >> casual browsers of the site -- that is, potential users of Geeklog.
> >> Most days, 90% of the content of the site is about bugs, glitches,
> >> install problems, basic questions, etc.
> >>
> >> I would think a better use for the main site would be to restrict it
> >> to news of Geeklog, new hacks, official bug fixes from the Dev Team
> >> members only, PR announcing sites that have been Geeked, etc.  With
> >> the Forum 2.0 plug-in available, support questions would be better
> >> served in that environment, would they not?
> >>
> >> It's almost like we've got this amazing car, but when we talk to
> >> people about it, all we tell them about is that it's sometimes hard to
> >>  start, it may break down if it's not treated right, and to get the
> >> most out of it, you really need to RTFM.  Shouldn't we be publicizing
> >> what Geeklog >can< do instead of focusing on what troubles people are
> >> having with it?
> >>
> >> I took a quick look at the home pages for phpnuke, mambo, phpslash,
> >> phpwebsite, webgenerator-x, drupal, e107, LDU, and ovidentia (thanks
> >> to opensourcecms.com :-).  Of those, only one or two have any sort of
> >> troubleshooting stuff on their homepages at all (phpwebsite had some
> >> random support questions and postnuke had a section called "Support").
> >>
> >>  The main focus of the pages is not help or questions, but rather,
> >> announcements and information.  Geeklog is the only CMS homepage that
> >> I visited that seemed to emphasize bugs and help directly on the
> >> homepage...
> >>
> >> Not that anyone asked me, but ... ... I would think a "staticpage"
> >> homepage with a full center pane of info about Geeklog -- what it is,
> >> how it works, top 10 sites its installed on, newest "Geekings," a link
> >>  for the support forum, a link to a sample site (opensourcecms.org),
> >> etc. would be a much better "selling" tool than the current collection
> >>  of help requests and "failed to RTFM" bug reports.
> >>
> >> <asbestos>
> >>   Flame away....
> >> </asbestos>
> >>
> >> -rob.
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> > Sincerely,
> > Simon
> >
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