[squeak-dev] The Future of Squeak

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Mon Apr 15 22:41:18 UTC 2013


So, after years of nothing, Tim shows up with a complaint and a buzz-saw?   ;-)

The Wiki by its nature has many authors which gives it its "messy"
organic quality rather than the clear presentation of a single
individual.  Unless we want to establish an overseer it will always be
exactly what many community individuals make of it.

The true cyberman approach would be simply to run a job that
enumerates every page of the swiki and deletes any that are, say,
older than one year.

But I think there are plenty of opportunities to make it more
organized and presentable without needing to be overly aggressive via
the cyberman approach.  For example, MathMorphs are probably works in
some old image and possibly able to be brought forward so I'd hate to
see perfectly good documentation completely annihilated simply because
someone considered it "old and out of date".


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:49 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> I guess my major point really is that the wiki pages are horribly out of date which at the least means probably wrong and misleading to any newcomers trying to find out about Squeak. I'm inclined to think that anything so out of date should probably be removed from view and at most preserved in some electronic aspic.
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> Many other pages on the squeak.org site are very out of date too and we collectively ought to try to do something about that. Again, I'd tend to go for the Cyberman approach (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGa37WgN3yY) The smart thing is probably to trim back to what we can actively support and then try to build more afreash.
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> tim
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> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> I am still waiting for the advent of the computer science groupie.
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