Dean Michael Berris wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
The VCR mentality has spread like a cancer.
Okay, but Robert this is a generalization.
I admit I have my prejudices. There is one thing. The person who does the work gets to decide how to do it. This is not so much as statement of equity - but actually a statement of fact. Good luck to anyone who takes this on. I'm sure everyone will be want to give a fair shot.
I would like to see a discussion about the structure of a "new" website before getting into the "tools". Of course I said most of what I wanted to say about this subject in our discussion regarding this subject at BoostCon.
That sounds like a good discussion to have. If it wasn't clear in my proposal, I apologize -- what I wanted to achieve was something like this:
www.boost.org - all about boost the community, the library collection, the process, the policies, the people - guidelines for the website, necessary disclaimers, etc. - a means for jumping to the individual library subdomains <library>.boost.org - blog - online documentation - support information issue tracking, patches, proposed enhacements - discussions (?) complaints, reviews, etc. - static pages (FAQ, History, etc.)
That looks close enough for government work.
The lack of a "unified" system will be found to be off putting to some - but this methods lets Boost evolve as necessary.
I agree 100%.
One thing that I believe is that each developer should be able to select the build, test and deployment system(s) he want's to support. For many simple libraries which are header only, a simple makefile to build and run all the tests is all that is needed. Likewise, a simple zip file is sufficient for deployment. While others need something more elaborate. So I would like to defer these decisions to the developer. This would make the web design/deployment, etc job smaller. It would let ideas like rypll enter into the mix one library at a time. On the other hand, I like the idea of a common look and feel - like google search pages. That way everything is where I expect to find it and it's easier to make comparisons. I hate it when every one has their "cute" feature - like a 50MB rap video extolling the virtues of their library. or whatever. This is perhaps too far ahead at this point - but I can't resist the opportuntity to tell someone else how to do his job. Robert Ramey