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Re: [Pharo-project] Solving the documentation problem. Capturing tacit knowledge. Knowledge reuse.

by Adrian Kuhn

Adrian Lienhard <adi@...> writes: > What about using a wiki to gather and edit comments (as suggested by > Stan) and then integrate them in a second step so that they are kept > together with the code (as suggested by Stef)? Just a thought... That gave me an idea, what about structuring that wiki like the discussion pages of wikipedia? That is, the wiki is structured by classes and methods, and in the image the browser shows a [wiki] button for classes and methods everywhere. This decouples publishing of code (functional contributions that you want to have double checked and tested by a core member) from publishing of comments (where like on wikipedia everyone can contribute without much harm). Also no dull work required to review and brush up all the information. Of course, initial effort is setting up a wiki with URLs of form /wiki/classname/methodname and including a button in OB that opens the wiki. --AA

Jan. 1, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo-beginner mailing list ?

by Douglas Brebner

On 31/12/2009 00:34, Adrian Kuhn wrote: > StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@...> writes: > > >> @Adrian: the forum idea is nice but I do not why it did not work for >> Smalltalk. I went to the site you mentioned but I could not get how >> it works. >> > You ask, they answer (or if you are in for points: they ask, you answer). It is > the major *open and free* site for questions & answers regarding programming. > Well, I will not attempt to explain stackoverflow beyond that... > > A general web 2.0 platform can of course not replace a dedicated community > platform. But being present on the *now* web (average time for a answer on SO > is about 2 minutes!) is a must these days. A strategy for the pharo twitter > account might also improve visibility as well as accessibility. Linking to > awesome mailing list or blog posts, both from Pharo, Smalltalk *and* outside, > would be my suggestion. > > Sorry to say, but mailing lists are parent's technology :) > I have to admit I dislike web forums and actually feel they're kinda primitive due to the way you need to go to each of them to keep up instead of having everything come to you in one place. Wasn't one of the points of computers to get rid of manually doing everything yourself like this? ;)

Jan. 1, 2010

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