Re: OpenEuphoria community proposal
- Posted by ryanj Jan 30, 2015
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Ryan, i laud your ideas, but sadly, some have been proposed before, and rejected.
Hmm. I don't recall a single one of ryanj's ideas being proposed before, let alone being rejected.
I suggested user archives on openeuphoria.org for libs and apps donated, which run on OE and not RDS's versions. This was roundly shot down as politically slapping Robert Craig in the face. I still support it,
Well, it was Rob who shot it down. Jeremy was the first one who proposed this IIRC, back in 2008 or so, with the new forum, only to be told no. (The exchange was between a member of RDS and Jeremy, iirc. The rest of the dev team wasn't involved.)
Actually, my Projects proposal is an attempt to revive that idea in a way that doesn't compete with the RDS archive. As for my other proposals, they have have been proposed before, but rejected and forgotten because apparently nobody had time to work on the website.
as i support a link here to point over to RDS.
I see what ryanj is proposing as different. A project page for win32lib (for example) would look more like a wikipedia entry than the short blurb and download for the archives.
Also, not every contribution to the archive is necessarily the result of the formation of a project team. (Of course, one can have one-person project teams. Whether or not a project team, and thus a project, exists is in the eyes of the authors.) Thus, not every contribution would necessarily have a project page. The reverse is also true - some project teams might have their own website and offer their own downloads, but choose not to submit it to the archives.
Thus, while some overlap might exist, this is something new and different from the user archives at RDS.
Exactly. The idea is to have more than just files to download. We need a centralized project information system. Let's consider win32lib, for example. It isn't very clear what the status is of that, where to download the latest version, what website is the "official" one, etc. But with a Projects section, you could simply look up the win32lib entry in the Projects list and click on it. You see who worked on it, what version is current, when it was released, what versions of euphoria or platforms it runs on, and a link to download it. Also, you can see a list of forum threads related to it (see my other proposal, http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/126525.wc), the Win32Lib wiki page, and a link to the project's website (i think it is http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32libex/ but i'm not sure). Then, the wiki page about it could be updated with useful information about it.
So, who is going to implement this?
