[ANN] Squeak Documentation Project

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 23 13:19:22 UTC 2006


Very good ideas.  Any other successes we can steal^H^H^H^H^Hborrow ideas 
from?


>From: "Bakki Kudva" <bakki.kudva at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list"<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: [ANN] Squeak Documentation Project
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:29:33 -0400
>
>Hi Mathew,
>
>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
>The links on ref.home should map to the classes as they are displayed
>in the system browser. Categories -> Classes -> Methods. (no need for
>method categories I think) Then for each method there should be a
>brief explanation followed by example usage.
>
>The skeleton can be setup by the team and the community can start
>filling things in. Team would also do some editing of content...filter
>out spam etc.(or require login - with email verification. RailsWiki
>had some bad spam problems).
>
>I'll be happy to participate and can even host it on my server.
>my 2 cents worth.
>
>bakki
>
>On 9/21/06, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>After some discussion with bmp on #squeak, I have decided to
>>start writing a tutorial on squeak. bmp told me that the best
>>way to proceed with this task is to take all the documentation
>>available on the swiki [1] and massively refactor it into book
>>form.
>>
>>I am a squeak noob, and I cannot do this alone. I have created
>>an outline of my proposal [2] on the swiki. If you have a better
>>idea, please say so. I really want to get involved with this
>>amazing project. This will be a great way for us noobs to
>>contribute and learn about squeak.
>>
>>[1] http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak
>>[1] http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5870
>>
>>--
>>Matthew Fulmer
>>
>>
>





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