On Monday 03 March 2008, Matt Williams wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I've got a proposal for you all which I've been thinking about for a while. > Since cmake is now getting more and more widely spread, being used by > people for both small, casual projects as well as monolithic projects (e.g. > KDE) it seems like cmake itself, as well as the users of it could benefit > from a community site of sorts. In my experience with opensource projects, > one of the largest factors in how large a mindshare it has as well as how > long it manages to hold on to that mind share is how strong a community it > has. > > Now, this list is great; both for quick support as well as a direct line to > the developers (kudos to Brad, Bill and co. for that) and the wiki is good > for code snippets and extra documentation but I feel it could be better. > > I'm looking to see what you guys on this list think about me starting up > a 'cmake community' site, possibly featuring the following: > - News about releases > - News about projects' success stories etc. > - Simple beginner's tutorials > - Tutorials about more specific tasks e.g. platform specific things (even > when this isn't necessarily cmake specific) > - A repository of Find*.cmake files including the ability to provide > feedback to the module writer, such as improvements/patches > - A repository of extra macros providing the same as the Find*.cmake > repository > - Discussion forums > > So, what do you guys think? Is this sort of site wanted/needed? Is this
I'd say not yet. For now it would probably be better to just help working on the wiki, there you can also write tutorials etc. A solution for additional cmake modules is needed. There is also a cmake site at google Alex _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
