Wiki news
On a thread on marketing-list last week, a point was made that right now there are too many avenues of communication into the GNOME project. Many requests for help appear to fall on deaf ears, simply because they are never seen by the people best able to respond. With the vast number of mailing lists, websites and other resources, it can be hard to know where to turn for help.
That was part of the reason why gnomesupport.org was so successful as a help site – people could turn up to the forum, ask questions, and expect answers. One of the things which gnomesupport.org did was put up a wiki, long before live.gnome.org existed.
So as a small step towards the consolidation of points-of-entry for low-level users, I proposed to stro over at gnomesupport that we work towards migrating all of the information from the gnomesupport pages to live.gnome.org. We haven’t worked out all of the details yet, but at least there is agreement that this is a good thing to do. The GNUCash developers, who didn’t even know about live.gnome.org, used the gnomesupport wiki exclusively, and a first response suggests they are happy to move too.
So, it’s a small step, but soon there will be only one wiki for GNOME, which is a Good Thing. Many thanks to Claus Schwarm for pointing out the gnomesupport site to me, and to stro for helping work out the details of the move.
