[General] Desktop import/export wiki page

[Ted Leung]

I made a few small edits to the names of the products - Google =>  
Google Calendar, Palm => Palm Deskop.   Other than that I think we  
are done.   I am fine with renaming the page.

Ted

On Aug 14, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:

> +1 looks much better, thanks Mimi.
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
> mimi at osafoundation.org wrote:
>> I've done another pass at the page with Katie and Ted's framing in  
>> mind.
>> It's now a short list of apps with instructions...and then notes  
>> about
>> bugs and issues if there are any.
>> I've gotten rid of the apps that didn't have instructions and  
>> expanded on
>> the note at the top inviting people to add their own troubleshooting
>> advice.
>> I propose we rename this page ChandlerDesktopImportExport since I  
>> imagine
>> we will continue to maintain / expand it after Preview.
>> Mimi
>> http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/PreviewDesktopImportExport
>>> I'm in agreement that the page is for end users (not primarily a
>>> planning page). I do think that a little bit of information on  
>>> related
>>> bugs is interesting/useful for users -- they could want to know  
>>> if/when
>>> we plan on fixing a bug or adding support for something.
>>>
>>> My main complaint with the current page is that the "description"  
>>> column
>>> is all scrunched and unreadable. I'd rather have a list of  
>>> products and
>>> link to detailed instructions than try and read that as is.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Katie
>>>
>>> Mimi Yin wrote:
>>>> Ah, ic. I think there is value in calling out issues in the same  
>>>> place,
>>>> but you're right, the emphasis should be more about instructions  
>>>> and
>>>> less about bugs. I will take another pass at this page with this in
>>>> mind...
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 13, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Ted Leung wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Last week we had some discussion about the desktop import/ 
>>>>> export wiki
>>>>> page:
>>>>> <http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ 
>>>>> PreviewDesktopImportExport>.  I
>>>>> volunteered to drive a revision of this page.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see that Mimi has already removed some of the stuff that I found
>>>>> most objectionable:  use of the wiki for bugzilla like tasks.    
>>>>> This
>>>>> is an end user page.  If we want to plan to rectify  
>>>>> deficiencies in
>>>>> our Import/Export support, I think we should do that on a separate
>>>>> page (or move this content to a separate page).
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that this page should just be a list of  products, and
>>>>> instructions for how to import/export data between that product  
>>>>> and
>>>>> Chandler desktop.    If we don't currently have solutions but feel
>>>>> that a product is important, we should have an entry that says
>>>>> something like:  "We don't have an import/export recipe for XXX  
>>>>> yet,
>>>>> if you use XXX and have a recipe, feel free to add it here. If you
>>>>> want hep debugging the Chandler end of a recipe that you are  
>>>>> working
>>>>> on, you can drop a note onto the chandler-users mailing list."
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ted
>>>>>
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