Continuing the "new docs site, anyone ?" thread. I've called it "portal site" this time to suggest a landing and jump-off page, rather than a reworking of existing docs (an interesting but separate topic).
I have an itch and a vision for this, so I guess I'll go ahead and scratch it, briefly. I'd love for others to jump on board, so I'd like to do this in a way y'all, including you John, Martin B, and other project leads, approve of and will help with. Hence all this brainstorming. But, I also need to throw something up quick while the motivation is strong. At minimum, I'll end up with a links page that's useful for me; that's still good. So I'm gathering content notes on this etherpad page - all help is most welcome! https://oasis.sandstorm.io/shared/UAYLwagGI0a2pIMg9Hhv74K04nbuxanXiS5ZtBV6NF- That's an unmemorable url, so I'd like to replace it asap. I will soon pick something temporary, and change it when we decide on something better. The goals listed there right now are: - a good introductory landing page for newcomers to the world of ledger-likes - a good roadmap to all ledger-likes, their docs, and useful generic docs, emails, blog posts - covers all ledger-likes neutrally - easy to find, spell, remember - easily and actively maintained; no stale/unmaintained bits - renders robustly across devices - visually attractive So, back to the naming discussion. I need a domain name suitable for the above, that most of us like! Here are some possibilities and comments. Please suggest more, and/or, if you feel ready, name your first and second preference. (In all cases, the suffix is assumed to be .org unless you say otherwise). Without "ledger" in the name: ----------------------------- plaintextaccounting A fundamental characteristic of all ledger-likes, so far. Understandable and inviting. functionalaccounting Another fundamental characteristic, though not universal. Less clear, more scary, requires explanation. With "ledger" in the name: -------------------------- ledgerhub Familiar and clear, in the github era. Martin has a retired tool called LedgerHub and is against reusing the name (but might be persuadable if we all asked very very nicely). plaintextledger plaintextledgers ledgerworld ledgerlikes ledger-likes ledgerlike Possibly too Ledger-specific-sounding: -------------------------------------- introtoledger welcometoledger ledgerguide ledgeriseasy Thanks for reading this far. :) -Simon On 2/7/16 8:44 AM, Simon Michael wrote: > We have a lot of docs, in various states of freshness, specific to each > implementation. Also many informative blog and mail list posts. Much of > this is hard to find. > > Reading Stefano's recent ledger list post, I think, not for the first > time, wouldn't it be great if we had all of this linked somewhere > central, curated, and presented beautifully, providing an easy on-ramp > and reference for newcomers and experts ? Actively maintained by the > community ? > > If so, where would that somewhere be ? ledger-cli.org and/or its wiki is > the closest existing candidate, but it has never felt right to load that > up with non-Ledger stuff. I think it's valuable for each implementation > to have its own distinct site. I think a separate, well-named, highly > findable site, even a single page collecting all useful links and acting > as a portal to the ledgerverse, could be a win. > > If you agree, what would you call it ? Martin, since you are retiring > your LedgerHub tool, would that name be available ? > > > Related to naming.. what do we call this whole topic, anyway ? Stefano > used the phrase "command-line accounting". But we have curses and web > GUIs too. "Plain-text accounting" ? Pretty soon we'll probably support > some non-text storage format. "Ledger clones" ? Too narrow. Aside: in > conversation, I use "ledger-likes" for things similar to but not > necessarily compatible with Ledger (ledger, hledger beancount, abandon, > penny) and "*ledger" for very compatible ledger-likes (ledger, hledger). > > Any thoughts ? -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
