[documentation] Contributors to docs need more public recognition

[Fernando P. García]

Shai, let me say with respect and good feeling: the spirit of OpenSource is
democracy, there is not OpenSource without democracy. We are not equals but
we all use the same: Drupal, and we all part of the same community: Drupal.
Nobody used a gun for moving us to collaborate. And from my personal point
of view: Nothing more near to the truth may become successful, because
Democracy is a divine principle.

So, please notice this particular topic is near to 100 replies:
http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-May/date.html, and our
goal could be to achieve clear solutions for getting more contributors.

Blessings!

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:

> Steve P. wrote:
>
>> This is not a performance question as far as I am concerned, this is a
>> benefit of
>> joining the community.
>
>
> @steve-p I disagree with this assertion. It suggests that one of the goals
> of Drupal.org is to try to get people to join the community via registering
> at the site. It suggests that drupal.org withholds goodies in order to get
> them to register.
>
> There are many legitimate reasons to hold back various functionalities from
> anonymous users (e.g. security, system resources etc.), but I don't believe
> that restricting project transparency for the sake of increasing the number
> of registered users at Drupal.org is a valid reason.
>
> I have been really impressed with transparency in the Drupal project. The
> proceedings of the project are available for public review. I find that
> inspiring. That kind of transparency is rare in the worlds of government,
> business, and sadly, non-profits as well. Leaders are typically concerned
> with message, spin, and control. I haven't seen much of that in Drupal. (I'm
> user/50259, joined in 2/06 and have gotten steadily more involved over
> time.)
>
> I often need to explain to people that open-source does not mean
> "egalitarian" -- we are not all equal in the project. And Dries as project
> leader has the final say on many things, especially as regards to core. It
> isn't a democracy. But the success of the project does rely on highly
> motivated people becoming involved. I believe that the significant
> transparency of this project is one of the motivating factors for people to
> become involved.
>
> The Revisions Tab is a small part of Drupal's transparency profile. But it
> worries me, even in this little arena, to think of access to certain
> information being used as a reward for registration. That feels controlling
> to me. It feels counter to Drupal's open approach.
>
> Shai
>
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Steven Peck <sepeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We are not enabling revisions for anonymous users.  This is not a
>> performance question as far as I am concerned, this is a benefit of
>> joining the community.
>>
>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 2:12 PM, catch <catch56 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Peter Wolanin
>> >  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Regarding making revisions available to anonymous users - you'd better
>> >> talk to Gerhard and Narayan (and other infra people).  The scalability
>> >> problem might be that you've essentially doubled the number of
>> >> handbook pages that will be spidered.
>> >
>> >
>> > If we excluded *revisions* in robots.txt we could probably avoid the
>> > spidering. That's probably one post subdomain-split anyway.
>> >
>> > http://drupal.org/handbook/updates was exactly the page I meant,
>> couldn't
>> > place it when I typed the e-mail. Ta!
>> >
>> > Nat
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