actually I think Rebol.org should have a wiki underneath it. > Hi, using rebol.org quite often to get an overview about available code > and collect ideas the following idea striked me. > > You know that I see fragmentation of efforts/information as one major > problem, which makes it hard for newbies to get into Rebol. Further > fragmentation slows down "professionalism" of Rebol for business markets. > > Anyway, with rebol.org we have a very good reference point. At the moment > it's a portal to get access to scripts, someone owns and updates. Scripts > are independent. The library people introduced the idea of packages, so > now I can add collections of scripts that are related. But still it's only > a one-person show. > > How about going to the next level? I would like to see a new section at > rebol.org, that contains a peer-reviewed library/framework following the > concept of the BOOST C++ library. We have a lot of very talented and > guru-level people here, to ensure high quality. > > How can such a process look like? > I see the peer-reviewed part of rebol.org made up be several levels. > - Strategy: What do we all need? What's the focus and priority? > - Research: What can we re-use, what ideas, concepts exist, what > succeeded? > - Concept : How should the design/usage/... look like? > - Development > - Review : The Review-Board checks quality etc. on the delivered code and > integrates the code into the overall library. > > What gets included depends on the need of the people. The strategy should > give a hint, for what is needed to achieve as much value as possible for > the community. Teams will either form to work on a topic or not. If not, > well, than it's not needed by many. > > IMO this will result in a high quality library of code, that fits > together. And that's something we all miss. With the availability of the > browser-plugin, we can even go that far to create a > peer-review-library-application. > > What do you think? > > -- > Robert M. Münch > Management & IT Freelancer > Mobile: +49 (177) 245 2802 > http://www.robertmuench.de > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > >
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