+1 for "Theme Parks"
On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 5:12:10 PM UTC-7, Hans W Borchers wrote: > > What about building something similar as the "task views" in R? (I don't > know what a better term there could be for it, perhaps "theme parks"?) > > Task views as Github projects could be expanded by the community easily. > The list of task views could be pointed to in the main menu of Julia's home > page. Each task view would have a maintainer, not an organization, because > there would be many more views than organizations. The maintainer can > decide whether he wants to include work in progress, etc. > > > On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 11:15:20 PM UTC+2, Iain Dunning wrote: >> >> Great suggestions/discussion everyone. I think without a stronger vote of >> confidence in the idea there isn't much reason to proceed. >> >> Re: svaksha's list, it is good, and I'd be curious how much traffic it >> gets. Its kinda chaotic though and has some errors, mainly because its >> pretty hard to be an expert in everything (and thus able to describe and >> categorize them). Plus there is the whole problem of the many pieces of >> code that get mentioned on the list but are unmaintained - testing related >> packages being my personal favourite. >> >> I've got some ideas for changes to pkg.julialang.org that would raise >> the prominence of organizations, who I think should be the ones leading >> discoverability of the packages in their realm as they know their area >> best. I'm also thinking of more ways to indicate package >> "quality"/development level for integration in the UI (see the Github stars >> I added recently). I'm going to collect a bunch of metrics and mash them >> together - we can then discuss the weightings. >> >> Hans: understandable you wouldn't have heard about CVX.jl yet, its not >> ready for public consumption. Should be ready by end of summer, at least a >> first pass. As for BlackBoxOptim, I'm not sure if you are implying some >> effort by myself or others to exclude it from JuliaOpt or METADATA, but >> that isn't the case - the author just hasn't done the work to list it. I've >> just reached out to him again, but if you are interested in it, then you >> should help out - this is open source after all, and we are all busy with >> other things. >> >> On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 2:31:32 AM UTC-4, Hans W Borchers wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the hint to this very helpful list of (mostly) not-metadated >>> packages. I started a list of Numerical Math packages for Julia myself, >>> because I did not find categorized or compiled information like here. Only >>> I am missing more information on optimization and simulation packages out >>> there. >>> >>> I think it is not so much a question of whether a package has enough >>> quality to be listed as a registered package. There will be package >>> developments going on for one or two years before they will appear on the >>> 'official' list, but I would still like to know about them. >>> >>> For example, I learned only from John Miles White's report on JuliaCon >>> about the CVX.jl package, though I had made a request about "convex >>> programming" on the julia-opt list some weeks ago. >>> >>> There is a useful BlackBoxOptim.jl package for global optimization that >>> has made it neither on the METADATA list nor on JuliaOpt page. I don't know >>> the reason, but the author seemed highly interested to see it there. >>> >>> Maybe, on the list of registered packages there should only appear >>> "recommended packages" (in the sense R adds them to the base installation). >>> And yes, information about other available packages needs to be improved -- >>> but perhaps this is more the task of the community, not of the core >>> developers, in the form of blogs or more pages like Svaksha's. >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 4:51:03 AM UTC+2, Isaiah wrote: >>>> >>>> On the discoverability side, svaksha's curated collection really >>>> deserves more attention - it is categorized and provides short summaries >>>> of >>>> code ranging from listed packages to useful fragments that never showed up >>>> on the mailing lists. >>>> >>>> http://svaksha.github.io/Julia.jl/ >>>> >>>> >>> >>
