[Labs-l] Visibility of tools

[Petr Bena]

This should be part of wikitech once it's available for regular users

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Harry Burt <jarry1250 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
>       I think an important part of this would be to have a Wiki where the
> mainspace is the tools' information and description.  I wouldn't even want
> to limit it to Labs-hosted tools; there are plenty of community developers
> that cannot or do not need to be hosted at the labs whose work is
> nevertheless valuable to the projects and would deserve being known about.
>
> As you may be aware Coren, the Toolserver has tried to maintain its own list
> of tools in the past, and indeed still maintains an amount of documentation
> on the Toolserver wiki. Note that the main issue is not the availability of
> a space, it's whether tool developers can be bothered to document their own
> tools. Whether they can be bothered is itself a factor of traffic: at the
> moment, I think most Toolserver developers see the primary discovery route
> to be via their local wiki, rather than a central one. I don't expect that
> to change.
>
> Happy to profile individual tools in the Signpost's Technology Report, but I
> don't have the time to write them myself at the moment.
>
> Harry
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> Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250)
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>> Thoughts?
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>> -- Coren / Marc
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> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
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>> On 02/20/2013 09:54 AM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
>>>
>>> I think an important part of this would be to have a Wiki where the
>>> mainspace is the tools' information and description.
>>
>>
>> Train of thought here; such a wiki would also be a natural home for
>> community documentation (howtos, known bugs, libraries and toolkits used by
>> the maintainers).
>>
>> -- Marc
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