[REBOL] Re: Wanted: a Libmaster - no pay, but glory
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 15-Sep-2002 12:31
I imagine Carl will gather the public and private responses and make the
call as to whether a single leader will head things up or a small team will
do it. I think many of us are in similar positions regarding available
time, so the concept of "many hands makes for a light load" would probably
work well.
Lots of areas to cover: submission processing, categorization, initial
testing, regression testing (and defining those things that require human
intervention to test), specialized testing (e.g. CGI scripts), content
management and generation, tools, design and architecture, searching,
viewers, etc.
I think having a single project lead is probably a good idea, but they'll
need support from others. It's a great opportunity to exploit REBOL in many
different ways.
We all know how easy it is for our "fun" collaborative projects to lose
steam, but this is something we all want, need, and see the value in so,
hopefully, we'll have enough oomph to build the initial momentum needed to
get it rolling.
As food for thought, what projects/systems can we use as points of
reference, good or bad? ActiveState cookbook and Squeak swiki were
mentioned. Adrian, could you make some notes on those (e.g. pros and cons)?
Python has 'The Vaults of Parnassus': http://www.vex.net/parnassus/
Perl has CPAN: http://www.cpan.org/
Ruby has a few links at: http://www.rubycentral.com/links/index.html
Euphoria has a simple archive at: http://www.rapideuphoria.com/archive.htm
--Gregg
