Thanks for your thoughts about options going forward. Will contemplate and provide my input soon...
I am really excited about having the complete site in Hobo and using Bootstrap.... Eating our own dog food is imperative... -Owen On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 10:13:30 AM UTC-5, Bryan Larsen wrote: > > One of the tasks that we'd like to do for the 2.0 release is to > replace hobocentral.net and cookbook.hobocentral.net with a single > site based on the bootstrap theme. > > I've started on it here: http://staging.hobocentral.net/. It's in > the bootstrap branch of https://github.com/Hobo/hobocookbook if you > want to help out. The task items are here: > https://trello.com/b/fvuauN0Q > > Some of the task items are straight forward, some of them require > discussion. > > One of the items that requires the discussion is "what should we do > about Questions and Recipes". > > Let's table the discussion about "questions". It's really a small > part of a larger discussion about what to do with the "community" > section of the web site. > > But "recipes" is a genuinely useful and different from "community". > Currently, it has problems with discoverability (searching, browsing), > it doesn't really have a great mechanism for updates by anyone other > than the author. It was also severely crippled when I introduced a > half-baked moderation scheme to deal with the spam issues we were > having. > > The following solutions have been proposed: > > 1) fix up the current mechanism. Add better browsability (tags?), add > editing capability, improve the moderation scheme. > > 2) add a user-editable page that contains an organized list of links > to hobo-users, since that's the primary place where people post > problems & solutions > > 3) build something around the github gist system, gists can have > comments, syntax highlighting, editing through forks. We already use > Github for our other user-editable pages, so requiring a user account > there instead of at hobocentral.net is not a big imposition. I > presume that Github has already dealt with the spam issue. > > 4) stackoverflow. Although more suited to "questions" than "recipes", > stackoverflow raison d'etre matches up very closely with what we need, > and they do it well. > > 5) use a wiki of some sort > > 6) merge with the current tutorial section. RIght now any of our > tutorials may be edited by anybody with a Github account (although > editing agility is a little more difficult due to it's extra > features). Perhaps we can migrate existing recipes here and create an > "create a recipe" link that edits a template on Github. > > thoughts, > Bryan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hobousers/-/fW9EmZ9hKhEJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
