digiKam '97

[Dan Dascalescu]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:31 PM, jdd <[hidden email]> wrote:

Le 17/01/2017 à 20:00, Jack Marxer a écrit :

I'm not familiar with Discourse, but I do think some way to have tech
questions on DigiKam available by searching a Wiki or something similar
would be valuable.

that's true, but I manage wiki(s) myself and know for sure it's very difficult to maintain *up to date*.

Agree. An online forum is like a self-organizing and improving wiki. Discourse search is very powerful, you can tag posts with keywords, and also, an excellent mechanism to save core developer's time:

As you write a new post, relevant threads are automatically displayed on the side, based on a surprisingly intelligent keyword matching algorithm. This is great for new users because they may often find their questions are already answered (even if the phrasing is slightly different!), thus saving developers the time of answering them again. Users can also like posts, surfacing the most valuable information.

Oh, Discourse also has wiki posts: if an admin makes a post a wiki, then other users can contribute to it, and there's a full revision history. Here's an example: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation/22706 (you can see the wiki post was edited 21 times).

So yea, setting up Discourse is an initial investment that will take some time (which I volunteered), but there's a lot of evidence that it can pay off a lot in the future.

Le 16/01/2017 à 04:01, Dan Dascalescu a écrit :
> Thank you for the Nabble link, but Nabble is pretty terrible too. It

it's probably better to simply use google :-) with site:bugs.kde.org

jdd

[J Albrecht]

On 20 Jan 2017, at 16:59, jdd <[hidden email]> wrote:

it's probably better to simply use google

Why would this be “better”? If there is a valid reason, please let us know.

Le 21/01/2017 à 05:28, J Albrecht a écrit :
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>> On 20 Jan 2017, at 16:59, jdd <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> it's probably better to simply use google
>
> Why would this be “better”? If there is a valid reason, please let us know.

because it works, isn't that what you want?

for any public web site, google works better than internal search. This
is why, in the first place, google was so successful :-)

jdd