Hi Seb and others,
My criticisms are mostly serious at the time of writing, but this seriousness doesn't lasts 13 billion years! Sebastien Lelong wrote: > We don't sell books, we don't sell anything in the sense > of money, but we do sell our own dog food, and I think we're doing this > very poorly. This has been confirmed by some users' feedback recently. That may be true, but everyone is free to "take it or leave it". Makes hardly any difference to me. > That's why we need to organize documentation (doing this on jalliblog > was a bad idea -- of mine :(), that's why we need to centralize content > on a website. And that website needs to be beautiful, it must be > pleasant to visit it, so appearance serves content! Yes, a good website is pleasant to visit. But I do not visit 'our kind' of websites only for pleasure but to search for something useful. The higher my needs the more forgiving I am to not so user friendly web sites with free software. > Now few more words about JSG to DITA conversion. If JSG is DITAfied > (...), we'll be able to put in any books, any webpages, etc... That's > mainly why I would like to DITAfy (...) it. The "cerise sur le gâteau" > is this nice webpage, that advertises how we write things, how > normalized is our work, etc... OK, it may be not a bad idea to propose JSG as standard for good JAL programming in general, or as showcase of how we obtain uniformity, quality, etc. > A buildbot page will follow, as DITA & > JAPP pages. This is about development, but it shows users how we > develop, with which tools, where we go, etc... This has to be showned on > a dedicated website, not just hide on a crappy google code wiki page. I have no problem with a (sort of) re-organisation whereby the 'JustAnotherLanguage' becomes the main website for all Jal information and activity, and of which Jallib is a subsidiary for library developers. Will the downloadable Jallib packages also be copied to this site? > Now I understand you'd still like to see this page on GC. I'll look for > a way to convert DITA to GC wiki syntax (probably with an intermediary). Not exactly. So far JSG was a programming standard for Jallib libraries (only). Libraries have to adhere to this standard, therefore it is part of Jallib. But JSG can very well be promoted to a general JAL programming standard. Potential contributions written with this standard would become easy to accept. And then it is useful to move it to the Jal site. In short: no objections (anymore) against DITAfying JSG and moving it to the Jal site. Regards, Rob. -- Rob Hamerling, Vianen, NL (http://www.robh.nl/) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. 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/jallib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
