thanks and suggestion

[Martin Pool]

On 7/4/07, Alaa Salman <alaasalman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> This is probably a little late since i have been using bzr for about a year
> now. But recently i had to work on windows, and i appreciated the fact that
> it is making my job easier even on windows. I know this is the work of
> Python, but i am talking about the general experience and not the platform
> issue.
>
> So thanks. I realize this is probably the least used word in free software
> today.

Thanks, that's really good to hear.

> I also have a suggestion about the website. I read recently about some plans
> for the website. Currently, in my opinion the website doesn't reflect the
> product that it is trying to sell(sell in the abstract sense). That of
> stability, flexibility and ease of use and so on...I never actually liked
> the use of wikis, but this is not the issue. I suggest an overhaul of the
> website now that bzr itself is doing some good work on the performance
> issues which should increase adoption rates.
>
> The work would probably be some organization work, some re-writes of the
> existing content and...oh yeah..please let us remove some of the old content
> that goes back to something like 0.8(i stumbled across one doc like that).
>
> I previously did some review for some documentation on the website. And so i
> would like to volunteer again. And this would be much better if everybody
> contributed.

I appreciate the suggestion and I agree that we should make it more
polished as Bazaar gets more polished.  If you'd like to help we would
appreciate it.  There are several things you could do:

 - If there are things that you're sure are out of date, just go ahead
and remove them.  If you're not sure, you can ask here on the list, or
in #bzr on freenode.
 - You can also suggest things that other people should do, whether
that is reorganizing material, changing the layout, rewriting things -
it is remarkable what people will do if you point out what needs to be
done.
 - If you think we need a better plan for how things are laid out we
can discuss that too.

We've talked previously about having a clearer separation between the
formal web site and a developer and support-oriented wiki.  I think
it's probably about content rather than tools at this point but if
using a different tool would help I'm open to it.

-- 
Martin