[ANN] Squeak Documentation Project

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 07:10:31 UTC 2006


Nothing from what I know and it would be good to migrate it on the  
squeakfoundation machines.

Stef

On 21 sept. 06, at 22:13, Ken G. Brown wrote:

> 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
>
> At 9:09 AM -0500 1/25/06, Mark Guzdial wrote:
>> 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
>> <>
>>
>> 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!)
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Sorry about this, everyone.
>>  Mark
>
> ---------------------------
>> 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
>> Message-ID: <87mz8t43fk.fsf at astra.dnsalias.net>
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>>
>> "Bakki Kudva" <bakki.kudva at gmail.com> writes:
>>> 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
>>
>> Have you guys looked at the Documentation wiki area we already have?
>> It is linked from the front page of the wiki.
>>
>>  http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2983
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> -Lex
>
>




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