Re: [boost] blincubator comments

Subject: Re: [boost] blincubator comments
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-19 18:47:23

On 19/06/2014 3:28 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
> Sohail Somani-2 wrote
>> consider Django
>> because the admin interface[2] could allow you to generate a nice
>> interface without futzing around with plugins and can also help you
>> create a more maintainable site because it forces you into a structure.
>> I'd be happy to help if you choose to go this way.
>
> I'd love to see someone take responsibility for this - are you interested?

Yes, but it's your idea and I don't have the vision. If you do decide to 
rewrite it for whatever reason, look me up. Did not mean to suggest a 
rewrite based solely on the fact that you used WP, as it can be very 
effective. SOOO many plugins and themes.

>> General question: are there any other sites/applications of this kind
>> out there? It seems to be a generally useful thing to make it easier to
>> solicit user contributions for open source software. The closest would
>> be a fork+pull request in Github that people can comment on. Maybe
>> that's enough, I don't know.
>
> The only reason I did this was because I couldn't find it anywhere else.
> There are pieces of this all over the place
>
> sourceforge
> github
> lots of others
>
> But nowhere did I find all the functionality in one place.  And another
> problem is that
> lots of library authors already have their own choice for all of the things.

I think anyone else confused about blincubator needs to read what you 
wrote below. The necessity of this "facade" is actually the important 
insight.

Thanks for doing it! Looking forward to discovering some good libraries.

Sohail

> rypll was interesting in that it desired to provide a unitified
> system for library development.  I was never sold on
> the idea that one could be successful by telling
> library authors what to do.  (I can get barely get anyone
> to listen to my suggestions).  And besides - it's a huge
> amount of work do something of this scale.
>
> So my approach was to make a "facade" which would:
>
> a) permit an author to use what he already has for repository,
> issues, testing dashboard, etc.  This would  make it easier to make
> a submission.  So far this has worked out well.  There are already
> multiple kinds of repositories and test dashboards being used by
> different authors.  Apparenly they had no problem making a submission.
> The main obstacle for a submission is that I require browsable
> html documentation.  This seems to be huge hurdle for many
> authors - we're all better off for it.
>
> b) Not have to do any of the facilities myself since it's pointless
> to replicate other's work - and let them maintain it.  If they do
> a bad job - then authors will switch and just update their links.
> You can see the whole point is for me to avoid doing any actual
> work - which of course is why I'm a software developer in the
> first place.
>
> c) present an unified interface to a variety of underlying
> tool implementations.  The user interface "facade".  This
> is to make it easy to brows documentation, code and
> issues etc in a more or less unified way.  Basically I want
> a user to be able to evaluate 10 libraries in an hour so
> he can accept one for his own application.  Currently this
> takes a couple of days to do.
>
> ) I did make special component just for boost - the review
> system.  As you can see from the "about" section of the
> website - I looked at lots of alternatives.  I stopped when
> I found wordpress and am mostly pleased with the results.
> Its a pain to use and has some quirks - but the 11 plugins
> are code that I use but didn't have to write.  The admin
> and stats page all come for free.  I'm very skeptical that
> another tool would have done a better job.  But of course
> I didn't try every tool - I just stopped when I found the
> first one that could actually do the job.
>
> Robert Ramey
>
>
>
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