Status of Squeak Swiki Re: [ANN] Squeak Documentation Project

karl karl.ramberg at chello.se
Sat Sep 23 05:54:12 UTC 2006


Does anybody have any info on this ?
Karl

Ken G. Brown skrev:
> This is a reminder that the Georgia Tech Swiki Support is going away, or has this changed recently? See the following email from Mark Guzdial, dated jan 25, 2006.
> I see that the SqueakSwiki link at <http://www.squeak.org> still points to <http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/Squeak>. Has the phasing out been planned for? What happens in case of disasterous loss?
>    Ken
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> At 9:09 AM -0500 1/25/06, Mark Guzdial wrote:
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>> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:09:12 -0500
>> From: Mark Guzdial <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu>
>> Subject: [croquet-user] Swiki Support at GT phasing out
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>> Folks, the support for Swikis at Georgia Tech is starting to be phased out.  We have no funding to continue supporting the servers, and the GT administration isn't willing to support them.  (Not when they have such powerful and useful software as WebCT already purchased!)
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>> This doesn't mean that anything is going away soon, but it does mean that swiki-bugs at cc.gatech.edu will be read less frequently and responded to more slowly, and if there is a catastrophic failure on minnow (e.g., disk failure), we may not be able to bring it back (e.g., no money to buy a new disk).
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>> The Squeak.org folks are already working to copy Squeak Swiki off our servers.  The Croquet community should probably be thinking similarly about longterm plans.  Again, there's no immediate need to move off, but some migration plans should be in thinking stage.
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>> Sorry about this, everyone.
>>  Mark
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>> Date: 21 Sep 2006 17:58:23 +0200
>> From: Lex Spoon <lex at cc.gatech.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [ANN] Squeak Documentation Project
>> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
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>> "Bakki Kudva" <bakki.kudva at gmail.com> writes:
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>>> This is something the noobs need badly. How about creating a community
>>> documentation wiki like the RailsWiki
>>> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails
>>> except it should be better organized by a team leader.
>>> My thoughts on this...
>>>
>>> I think it should have two broad sections.
>>> 1. Manuals
>>> Howtos, tutorials and long winded explanations
>>> 2. Language reference
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>> Have you guys looked at the Documentation wiki area we already have?
>> It is linked from the front page of the wiki.
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>>  http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2983
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>> I'll append its table of contents.  In my view, we already have an
>> excellent documentation framework.  The place people can help is to
>> actually write these nice articles.
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>> -Lex
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