That was fast. Thanks.
I tried to add a category index on top of the page but
the swiki has some trouble with spaces in anchor names, I think.
Even dough the help page uses '@My Section' as an example.
Anybody got a way of doing this ?

Karl


Lex Spoon wrote:

> To focus the talk a little, I spent half an hour merging and organizing
> the Tools, Packages, and Projects pages.  The new page is at:
>
>         http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1406
>
> Unfortunately, many of the projects were listed with no description, and
> so this attempt at an index is as yet quite sparce.  Furtermore, there's
> only about 50-60 projects on there, when I'm sure there is much more
> going on.  But hopefully it's enough to get the idea.
>
> So, a few comments and questions.
>
> First, categorizing this stuff is hard.  An ideal system would allow
> items to have multiple categories, but that could be a pain to maintain.
>  Maybe we just have to live with it.
>
> Second, it's not clear what should show up on the index page directly.
> Most projects have a web page for them; heck, if they don't, it's real
> easy to make a quick Swiki page for it.  So detailed instructions seem
> like a poor thing to put in the index.  How about author names?  I guess
> this is appropriate, so long as its a small number of authors.  What
> else should show up there?
>
> Finally, my inclination is to list other indices of projects separately
> somewhere.  I started a list at the top of the page for things like
> "STP's Goodies".  In the index itself, it seems sensible to actually
> list out the goodies.  Does this sound reasonable to others?  There's
> simply a cognative dissonance in mixing both indices and actual projects
> in a long list like the current Projects, etc, pages do.
>
> Overall, what do people think of this?  Can we axe the Projects, Tools,
> and Packages pages, and replace them with a single "All Projects" page
> (probably renamed to "Projects") ?  People who have actually used
> Freshmeat before, is this anywhere close to useful compared to those?
> :)
>
> -Lex