Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Sherlock
If there are docs all over the place then either its needless duplication or merely serves to cloud already existing (or in progress doc) keeping central and support formats of docs that all (of all levels) can contribubte to is better for all concerned I am sure that the docs will expand into

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread nate
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RE: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread Mariano Iglesias
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Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread aranworld
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Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread nate
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Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread John David Anderson
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Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread aranworld
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Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread Sliv (Tim MacAleese)
I gather the overall feeling is just that feedback be provided on all submissions, whether negative or positive, so submitters know the deal. I myself have made some contributions, some reject, some approved, some into the void of no response. Personally, I don't care whether something is

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread nate
Well, looks like your fledgling wiki has already become a haven for jackasses with axes to grind. Good luck trying to maintain it. On May 7, 1:47 am, Aaron Shafovaloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The URL is now: http://www.unauthorizedcakeguide.com/ On May 6, 11:16 pm, Dr. Tarique Sani

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread John David Anderson
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Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread aranworld
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Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread Sliv (Tim MacAleese)
It's my understanding that part of the idea behind the cookbook submission process was to migrate the flood of documentation tickets away from trac. Unless you're talking about a separate trac repo/site. Would the trac model work? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread David Coll
Nate, as one of the dev leader, you should temper your language, I find it harsh I don't see exactly where is the problem with that wiki. In fact, I've made a wiki myself to help me think throught some process that weren't correctly described here and there when the book was still just a

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Hartjes
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, David Coll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see exactly where is the problem with that wiki. In fact, I've made a wiki myself to help me think throught some process that weren't correctly described here and there when the book was still just a thought. I

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Stephen Orr
The answer seems to be because some people believe that a wiki is the solution to all of mankind's problems. I'd rather see people contributing to the main docs personally, since it was launched the Book has really helped me get answers faster (there's still some things I need to refer to the API

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread AD7six
On May 6, 4:59 am, Aaron Shafovaloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the clarification. I'll just start from scratch. You know that you (and I mean you not other people) can edit/add content to the book? Cheers, AD --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Marcin Domanski
Hey The content is owned by the Cake Software Foundation (...) Can you elaborate why is that ? Why not use GPL ? GFDL ? Creative Commons ? For me it's wierd that a community contributed documentation cannot be used by the community without an approval. -- Marcin Domanski http://kabturek.info

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Sliv
I think some people are anxious to see the enhancement tickets for the cookbook get some kind of response, particularly the ones that give feedback as to the status of contributed content, versioning, etc. These are wiki type enhancements that would help resolve the issue where people submit

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Sliv
On a side note, have you folks (those wanting to fork a doc wiki) already tried offering to Gwoo/John to help code/write the cookbook app and have since decided to venture out on your own, or are you just unsatisfied with the cookbook without offering to assist and wanting to spearhead your own

RE: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Mariano Iglesias
Asunto: Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source? Why? Writing a documentation resource on CakePHP from scratch is quite an undertaking. What could possibly be your motivation for doing such a thing? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Amit Badkas
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Sliv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think some people are anxious to see the enhancement tickets for the cookbook get some kind of response, particularly the ones that give feedback as to the status of contributed content, versioning, etc. - Where is the SVN for

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Sliv
I don't actually know, but contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], I am sure he (and everyone) would welcome offers to help. - Where is the SVN for cookbook code? Would like see if I can help out with some patches --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Amit Badkas
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Sliv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't actually know, but contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], I am sure he (and everyone) would welcome offers to help. - Did that Amit http://amitrb.wordpress.com/ http://coppermine-gallery.net/ http://cheesecake-photoblog.org/

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread John David Anderson
On May 6, 2008, at 2:39 AM, Marcin Domanski wrote: Hey The content is owned by the Cake Software Foundation (...) Can you elaborate why is that ? Why not use GPL ? GFDL ? Creative Commons ? For me it's wierd that a community contributed documentation cannot be used by the community

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Sliv
Just a guess, but probably for forking wiki's. ...and I find it funny how similar saying forking wiki's sounds to something good ol' Chris would say :D What did you want to use it for? -- John --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread the_woodsman
I second the urgent need for more wiki like features in the Cook Book - I've made a few alterations and comments on the content, but having no idea if any of them were ever accepted, or indeed if the book has even been updated in the last week/month/year, it's hard to be motivated to do more. A

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread John David Anderson
On May 6, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Sliv wrote: Just a guess, but probably for forking wiki's. That's exactly why we don't allow that. :) I hope you can see why that'd be a problem. -- John --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread John David Anderson
On May 6, 2008, at 7:50 AM, the_woodsman wrote: I second the urgent need for more wiki like features in the Cook Book - I've made a few alterations and comments on the content, but having no idea if any of them were ever accepted, or indeed if the book has even been updated in the last

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread AD7six
On May 6, 2:50 pm, Sliv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think some people are anxious to see the enhancement tickets for the cookbook get some kind of response, particularly the ones that give feedback as to the status of contributed content, versioning, etc. These are wiki type enhancements

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Sliv
Oh, there's no fault here, this is all on a volunteer basis. I would simply hope that if people have the time/ability to fork wiki's, they would have the time/ability to join the cookbook development team in some way and that their would be a doorway/path open for them to do so. That's all my

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Marcin Domanski
Hey The content is owned by the Cake Software Foundation (...) Can you elaborate why is that ? Why not use GPL ? GFDL ? Creative Commons ? For me it's wierd that a community contributed documentation cannot be used by the community without an approval. Mostly because we don't

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread mbavio
This forking wiki has nothing to do with the attemp to fork CakePHP, or has it? Seems like we are under attack! On May 6, 11:50 am, John David Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 6, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Marcin Domanski wrote: Hey The content is owned by the Cake Software Foundation

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Marcin Domanski
[snip] Why don't you want that ? wikipedia is freely available and i don't see the problem where articles are available on other sites as long as people know its from wikipedia. There's also *one* wikipedia. How many side wikipedia efforts are flourishing? There are sites (ex. music

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Chris Hartjes
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Marcin Domanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't that a problem for php docs ? djangobook.com ? Aren't the PHP docs mirrored instead of duplicated and updated independantly? I might be grumpy, but on this issue I feel meh. If people want to go and create

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Marcin Domanski
Aren't the PHP docs mirrored instead of duplicated and updated independently? Yeah it was me hijacking the thread. My concern was the openness of the docs not creating a wiki or anything. And php.net and djangobook was an example of docs on free license. As a general rule i like the things i

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Aaron Shafovaloff
The answer seems to be because some people believe that a wiki is the solution to all of mankind's problems. You are correct. :-) I think wikis best harness the power of collective intelligence and collaboration for projects like documentation. Also, it it makes sense that CakePHP

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread AD7six
On May 6, 7:38 pm, Aaron Shafovaloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The answer seems to be because some people believe that a wiki is the solution to all of mankind's problems. You are correct. :-) I think wikis best harness the power of collective intelligence and collaboration for projects

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Aaron Shafovaloff
Well, the book does harness collective intelligence and collaboration, but I personally think wikis do that best. In summary, I like the flexibility of interlinking (I think that's what it's called), of evolving large pages into smaller chunks, of categorizing pages, of discussion areas attached

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Aaron Shafovaloff
My meager, scanty effort has begun here: http://www.cakedocs.org/ On May 6, 12:20 pm, Aaron Shafovaloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the book does harness collective intelligence and collaboration, but I personally think wikis do that best. In summary, I like the flexibility of

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Dr. Tarique Sani
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Aaron Shafovaloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My meager, scanty effort has begun here: http://www.cakedocs.org/ Sigh! what a waste I may have differences of opinion on some of the ideas of core devs on some semantics of *freedom* as applied to Open Source. I

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Aaron Shafovaloff
The URL is now: http://www.unauthorizedcakeguide.com/ On May 6, 11:16 pm, Dr. Tarique Sani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Aaron Shafovaloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My meager, scanty effort has begun here: http://www.cakedocs.org/ Sigh! what a waste I may

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-06 Thread Dr. Tarique Sani
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Aaron Shafovaloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The URL is now: http://www.unauthorizedcakeguide.com/ Visit from the CakePHP police? ;) Cheers Tarique -- = Cheesecake-Photoblog:

Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-05 Thread Aaron Shafovaloff
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Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-05 Thread Chris Hartjes
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Aaron Shafovaloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source? Why do you ask? -- Chris Hartjes Internet Loudmouth Motto for 2008: Moving from herding elephants to handling snakes... @TheKeyBoard: http://www.littlehart.net

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-05 Thread Aaron Shafovaloff
, May 5, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Aaron Shafovaloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source? Why do you ask? -- Chris Hartjes Internet Loudmouth Motto for 2008: Moving from herding elephants to handling snakes... @TheKeyBoard:http://www.littlehart.net

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-05 Thread Gwoo
The book is open. Anyone is free to contribute. The content is owned by the Cake Software Foundation and contributed by loyal members of the CakePHP community who value collaboration and central location for information and resources related to the CakePHP project. Therefore, you cannot

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-05 Thread Aaron Shafovaloff
Thanks for the clarification. I'll just start from scratch. On May 5, 8:56 pm, Gwoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The book is open. Anyone is free to contribute. The content is owned by the Cake Software Foundation and contributed by loyal members of the CakePHP community who value collaboration

Re: Is the documentation at book.cakephp.org open source?

2008-05-05 Thread nate
Why? Writing a documentation resource on CakePHP from scratch is quite an undertaking. What could possibly be your motivation for doing such a thing? On May 5, 10:59 pm, Aaron Shafovaloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the clarification. I'll just start from scratch. On May 5, 8:56