22 Nov
2016
22 Nov
'16
2:39 p.m.
On 22 Nov 2016, at 14:18, Guillaume Delhumeau
<guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
2016-11-22 13:16 GMT+01:00 Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>et>:
We develop a tool that centralize information and we don't use it to
centralize our own informations, except documentation.
XWiki is not a tool to help develop software. It can be used for some parts of the
software development process (the documentation part, the requirements part, etc). But for
example it won’t help you store your sources files and it won’t help you develop your Java
Code (your IDE will though).
On 22 Nov 2016, at 12:13, Guillaume Delhumeau
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guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Hi everybody.
Today I would like to speak about an issue that annoys me for years.
We are working on a tool whose one of the objectives is to stop
scattering
information in multiple places. It's even the
main argument explained in
the video integrated on the home page of XWiki:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QTWrZ7OfzI.
But on the other hand, we, developers of XWiki, do the opposite in
practice. We discuss on mailing lists that are archived on Markmail, we
report issues on Jira and we do investigations on design.xwiki.org, and
I
don't even count Github.
Honestly I don’t see the relationship between the tool we develop and how
it’s developed. These are completely separate things!
Using a car is pretty easy but creating one is hard. That’s normal and
expected :)
Yes but if you also create a tool to help you creating a car and you don't
use it yourself, you're giving a bad image to your product.
I’d never promote XWiki as a tool to replace any of the tools I’ve mentioned in my
previous reply. If you do, you’re doing a disservice to your users.
XWiki is not:
- a forum
- a CI
- a SCM
- a chat tool
- a mailing list
- etc.
Each of these tools have a purpose and it’s certainly not that of XWiki.
For example a forum is a place to discuss. A wiki is not a place to discuss (it can be as
an edge case but it’s certainly not a best of breed tool for that). A wiki is first and
foremost a place where you can aggregate knowledge.
So yes we should use XWiki to aggregate knowledge And this is exactly what we do on
xwiki.org and design.xwiki.org.
[snip]
Thanks
-Vincent