WindowsAPI project pages now migrated to Dsource

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

jcc7 wrote:

> == Quote from Stewart Gordon (smjg_1998 at yahoo.com)'s article
>> The only thing I haven't cleaned out is the discussion from the
>> Wiki4D page. I'm still not sure what is the best course of action
>> regarding this - both what to do with the existing discussion and what
>> should replace it for conducting such discussions in the future.  I
>> suppose the question is whether we need a discussion page on the wiki.
>> We have these newsgroups and the Dsource forum - do we really need
>> anywhere else?
>> Stewart.
> 
> I think the problem is that is isn't one semi-official place to discuss
> the project. People will post about the project where they want to post
> about it, but I think it's helpful for an official place to share
> information with people in the project.
> 
> For example, if people post in the forums and the people involved in the
> project don't frequently read the forums, they might not ever know that
> someone has posted useful comments in the forums. That's why I sometimes
> added a comment on the Wiki4D page when someone posted in a dsource
> forums. (Of course, I don't know that anyone saw that comment either.)
> 
> Also, there's such a high volume of newsgroup posts, that it's easy to
> miss a thread if someone goes on vacation for a few days.
> 
> Also, related posts can show up in any of the newsgroups. For example, 
> here's a recent post that's in digitalmars.D (while this post is in
> digitalmars.D.announce):
> 
>
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=57654
> 
> 
> It's good to have a designated wiki page where messages can be left until
> they're dealt with. But I guess that still leaves the issue of how long
> the content has to remain before it's deleted. If the dsource Trac wiki is
> used, even if the message is deleted, it can still be found in the page
> history. Maybe some of the Questions-and-Answers could be turned into an
> official Q-and-A page, and then the messages could be deleted?

I don't know how much longer it is before the trac forums are integrated for
the rest of the projects on dsource, but at that point, all of the
information in a trac instance (whether wiki pages, tickets or forum posts)
is available through the search button, even if it is a bit dis-organized.

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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