Project Elf: quality effect poll

Wolf P.

Forums - and mailinglists too - have the common property to be dominated by the communication process itself. I think as more results were taken to the wiki and the wiki structure gets improved step by step, the usability will increase.

kamalakshantv

[quote author="Wolf P." date="1291641645"]Forums - and mailinglists too - have the common property to be dominated by the communication process itself. I think as more results were taken to the wiki and the wiki structure gets improved step by step, the usability will increase.[/quote]

Yes it will take some time to build the wiki and forum and I feel things are moving at a good speed.

troubalex

It's time for me to jump in. Better late than never. ;)

We are experimenting here, you're right. An important part - at least in theory - of community building is to increase the base of active users. We are boosting this process with the current project. Naturally, the SNR will decrease during this period and I am aware of the fact that it may scare people. I am convinced though that things will calm down fairly soon.

I hope to see a growing number of active users that stick to the site to contribute useful content over time. For now, we are stress-testing our workflow and how well the features scale and which features are missing the most for a big user base. It takes time to implement new things and the sooner we start working on them the better.

In general, I have the feeling that overall it's going quite well - despite some quirks and hick-ups. Let me know if you don't agree. Oh, and if you have something to discuss that you'd prefer to handle in private, feel free to send me a message.

baysmith

Alexandra, thank you for the clarification. Now that the intention of Project Elf is more clear, I agree it is going quite well.

GordonSchumacher

I think that it's shaping up to be a very good system indeed; my only complaint presently is trying to figure out how to contribute is often difficult (is that really the only formatting possible on the wiki? no tables?!?)

But it already runs more smoothly than some of this sort of thing I've seen before!

DenisKormalev

Gordon, tables are avail in wiki. For example look "here":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/GettingStartedWithQtRussian .

Wolf P.

...as added to the "WikiSyntax":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/WikiSyntax help page :)

GordonSchumacher

[quote author="Wolf P." date="1291738187"]...as added to the "WikiSyntax":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/WikiSyntax help page :)[/quote]

Okay, now that was fast. I am clearly not all the way awake yet - my first thought was "I coulda sworn I just looked at that pa... ... oh yeah, it's a wiki." :-P

Thanks, although at the same time I also just noticed the "formatting by Textile" link, which I'd been looking for before too. Bah.

Wolf P.

I think this both should be merged into TextileSyntax or so. The WikiHelp should cover tipps rules for working in this wiki, syntax issues added as link for further reading.

What do you (all) think?

giesbert

That sounds good. It should be one entry for the syntax, which covers (almost) all posibilities. Whether that is Wiki Syntax (with two sections, one with the current content and then the textiles) or a separate page doesn't matter.

GordonSchumacher

Um. If I use the "|_. header |" format on a table, it looks correct in the page preview, but not once I hit "submit"! Buh...?

DenisKormalev

Gordon, please make another thread in beta testing about it or fill report to bugreport site.

Franzk

My two cents: Activity helps increase the quality in the long run. More activity will not only lead to more questions, but also to more people being somewhat specialized in certain parts of Qt. Besides that, an active forum is more fun to be around.