OneStop is not dead!
I’ve been hearing that people think OneStop is dead! This is not the case. OneStop is simply better and runs on a more modern platform. I try and describe what OneStop is in the blog posting What is Onestop – next ?. In short, users can continue to go OneStop and find a set of pages that are:
- owned and moderated.
- adhere (loosely) to the OneStop format. The familiar categories are in the same order.
- are up to date and accurate, or at least there is framework (people and tools) in place that tries to ensure this.
- are there. In other words the breadth of OneStop space is complete and controlled. Products , Technologies, and Programs of interest to Sun CEs (Customer Facing Engineers) will be there.
- are easy to find and navigate. It’s a limited universe (~500) pages so we can make the menus, search, and a-z work well.
However, OneStop pages are now Wiki pages that support commenting and voting. There is also a WYSIWYG editor (albeit not a great one) that makes simple edits an order of magnitude easier.
SunSpace now has 200 communities and the number is growing rapidly. We’re seeing a significant need for communities to have a OneStop page for “non community” members. No content redundancy is required thanks to macros like {include} and {simplelisting}.
We will take action very soon to ensure that a page looks like a OneStop page at a glance. Currently all SunSpace pages have a similar look.