[squeak-dev] We need an Applications tab on squeak.org

Thiede, Christoph Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de
Mon Sep 28 10:42:00 UTC 2020


There are so many small and big projects on GitHub that are not yet listed on squeak.org:

https://github.com/search?l=Smalltalk&p=1&q=squeak&type=Repositories

Just for example Squot, smalltalkCI, Autocompletion, ...

And also I would like to list several smaller tools and frameworks somewhere that, despite their small size, might be very interesting for your personal Squeak workflow: Autocompletion, MessageSendRecorder, WindowAcrobatics, and so many others (just telling some names from my individual filter bubble).


SqueakMap integration sounds reasonable, even if I personally do not really use SqueakMap; but I think it would be good to keep an up-to-date project list on squeak.org, and even it is only good for the public visibility of Squeak.


Best,

Christoph

<http://www.hpi.de/>
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Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Taeumel, Marcel
Gesendet: Montag, 28. September 2020 10:38:22
An: squeak-dev
Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] We need an Applications tab on squeak.org

> Having different sections ("Commercial Applications", "Games", "Tools", ...) on the projects page sounds like a reasonable thing to have.

Maybe one could work on some integration with SqueakMap. Such project indexes (or databases) need to be (manually) updated. We are having a hard time doing that with SqueakMap already. Adding a new index through squeak.org does not seem to be like a sustainable idea. The current "projects" list on squeak.org is almost maintenance-free. :-D Let's consider that when we move forward.

Best,
Marcel

Am 28.09.2020 09:58:23 schrieb Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com>:

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 2:50 PM Stéphane Rollandin
wrote:
>
> > muO's already on the projects page:
> > https://squeak.org/projects/
>
> Yes, I know. It's all a question of vocabulary I guess.
>
> Eliot proposed an "application" tab for commercial "projects". We
> currently have a "project" tab. I'm not clear on what a project actually
> is (it is not a word I use), and to me an application (not a word I use
> either) does not have to be commercial.
>
> I call what I do "programs" of "software". I made two games, which I
> call "games", not projects (in that instance the word seems very wrong
> to me). I am working on a third one, of a different kind and scope, that
> is indeed currently maybe a project but when somewhat finished will be a
> software or a framework because it is actually a open-ended game engine.
> There will still be a game there, though.
>
> In the current project tab at squeak.org, very different types of
> software are listed together. If a different tab for applications is
> going to be added, then it is maybe the opportunity to sort things out.
> At the moment is feels like "oh look at all the things people made with
> Squeak" but since there are not too many of them and they are very
> different in nature it may give the impression that we just gathered
> what we could, and that in fact Squeak is not much used at all.


What you see under "Projects" is the first or maybe second iteration
of what we came up with when we built the new website. All sources are
open source, so anyone can contribute or make suggestions on how we
could improve. Having different sections ("Commercial Applications",
"Games", "Tools", ...) on the projects page sounds like a reasonable
thing to have.

Fabio

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> Stef
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