[SMW-devel] SMW Seattle meetup group formed

2013-11-05 Thread John McClure
Hello, here in Seattle USA I have started http://www.meetup.com/Semantic-MediaWiki Since I dilly-dallied, Meetup.com sent me a 50% coupon. Try it in your town! cheers/jmc On 10/31/2013 5:31 AM, Samuel Lampa wrote: > Dear all, > > Thanks for a super-great SMWCon! It provided lots of inspiration to

Re: [SMW-devel] RFC: Technical documentation, installation instructions and release notes

2013-11-05 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Hi Jeroen, different answers for different questions: +1 to have detailed release notes in the source code (and nowhere else). The wiki will always have news items and SMW version pages that describe the main changes in a release; the release note file in the source can be linked from the wiki

Re: [SMW-devel] RFC: Technical documentation, installation instructions and release notes

2013-11-05 Thread James HK
Hi, +1 When I started re-factoring classes and objects, I first thought that the SMW wiki would be the right place for keeping track of such effort but it soon became apparent that maintaining such information on-wiki is not worth energy and therefore I retreated from the wiki as technical docume

Re: [SMW-devel] RFC: Technical documentation, installation instructions and release notes

2013-11-05 Thread Yury Katkov
Hi Jeroen! In my opinion the less documentation goes with source code - the better. Documentation must be easy to edit and it's not easy to do anything in git. I propose to store only release notes in git and everything else on the wiki. I think it's especially bad to store installation instructio

[SMW-devel] RFC: Technical documentation, installation instructions and release notes

2013-11-05 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, We have been both shipping documentation together with the source code (as text files) and providing it on the SMW wiki since I joined the project. I see some problems with this. If the documentation is at both places, it doubles the maintenance effort. Given we have quite little resources t

[SMW-devel] SMW 1.9 entering beta stage

2013-11-05 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey all, Semantic MediaWiki 1.9 is now entering the beta stage, in preparation of the actual release somewhere next month. During this period we will mainly be working on making this already awesome release even more shiny, and making sure everything works as expected. No big new features will be