[Pdweb] another part to the Developers section

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 11:03 America/New_York, Frank Barknecht 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
>> I just thought of another thing that should be part of the Developers
>> section: finding out who is doing what.  There could be a listing of
>> different aspects of pd that are being developed, for example: web
>> site, Tcl GUI, Human Interface Devices (HIDs), synthesis, etc.  Then
>> under these sections would be who is working on it.  So I would be
>> listed under the web site and HIDs.
>
> I think, this might work better if we use Plone's meta informations. 
> FOr
> example, I do have one GUI external in my written collection, but 
> normally
> I don't do GUI. If I would just list my externals with certain keywords
> ("gui", "fm-synthesis",...) then we could automatically collect these
> according to keyword.
>

That would work well for finding externals, but I am interested in 
finding other developers.  For example, my main development interest 
right now is HIDs and I want to find other people who share that 
interest to see if we could collaborate, I could go to the Developers 
section and check the listings.  This could be done using personal meta 
information instead of meta information for the externals.  Also this 
section would have a listing of maintainers for various parts of the 
development (Linux/Windows/MacOSX/etc, pd-externals/ 
pd-flext/pd-gem/etc.).  Basically it would be a place to organize the 
development.

Also, I think that we have to be careful about doing everything the 
"Plone way".  If we want as many people as possible to contribute to 
this site, we have to take into account that many people who write 
externals might not be willing to learn Plone at all.  We have 
experienced such resistance to the CVS, enough though (in my opinion) 
using CVS makes things easier for the developer.

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