On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Matt Haggard <haggar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... [a story] ...
Very entertaining :-).
My one disappointment with the narrative was that when you were lushly
describing standing in an open field west of the white house, you neglected to
mention that there was a mailbox there.
> I want to mow the lawn, so to speak. I want to plant flowers and make
> the One Front Door more prominent. I'm considering making a site
> dedicated to people learning Twisted. It would be cool if it there
> were things showcasing running Twisted services (websockets + ssh +
> irc or something).
>
> Is there interest in this?
Of course.
I'd be happy to see what you come up with in terms of a site specifically for
beginners. I think you might need to do more than one; after all, "do you want
to make an IRC bot or a name server or an all-singing all-dancing website with
IMAP and XMPP on the side?" is a tough counter-question to ask of someone who
just asks "what is Twisted?".
But let's not neglect the existing site! I can see a lot of value of having
some alternate entry-points, but there are probably things that you'd like
those entry-points to link to on the Twisted site proper, which may not exist.
If you'd like make them exist by doing some web site maintenance ("wiki
gardening"), I'd be happy to give you the relevant credentials on
https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/. Patches to documentation are always welcome
too, although (as always) we need help to get the review queue back to a
manageable size so they can be landed in a timely manner. Even little changes
(like this update that I made to the Trial page a few years ago) can help a lot.
I'm pretty sure we can scare up some hosting resources for things if you want
to have some kind of demo persistent Twisted services running.
twistedmatrix.com is no longer buckling under the pressure of its users - why,
I just ssh'd in, and the load is less than 1.0! By our historical standards
that's practically idle! ;-) And we have some other machines that we have not
had the system administration bandwidth to make effective use of.
It's also worthwhile to periodically really review the state of things, so you
don't fix problems that are already fixed, or at least you build on solutions
that are already in progress. Sometimes us old-timers who remember when the
docs were _really_ bad and there were _big_ gaps (the mention of the "index"
makes me think you are remembering when
<http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/> was just a blank directory
listing) don't always appreciate how much things have improved in the
intervening years.
Not to say that the state of the documentation and particularly the "new user
experience" doesn't still have a long, long way to go :-).
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