I believe Debbie was asking the community for a few folks willing to "garden" the wiki. Anyone interested?
Br's, Marius On Jun 2, 11:07 am, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: > Guys, > > I know you chaps are quite new on this lift, so just to add a bit of > background - we've been here many, many times before with various > people pledging to fix and cleanup the wiki (myself included!) > > After much discussion we decided that what was needed were gardeners - > not perhaps to write the articles themselves (as they may not be able > to if its about complex lift internals), but rather, to hassle the > commit team into churning out the required information that the > gardeners can distill onto the wiki. This involves going through the > current wiki and removing the old / irrelevant stuff. > > Cheers, Tim > > On Jun 2, 3:36 am, g-man <gregor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Having gone through Rails, the Google App Engine with Django, and > > web2py over the last four years, I have seen it all as far as learning > > new frameworks goes, and I have posted a few ideas on that subject > > both here and on the book group. > > > For those of us spoiled by the wealth of learning material on Rails, > > and to a lesser degree Django and web2py, all I can say is: 'Lift is a > > new framework, and a sophisticated one at that, which uses a new > > language derived from a convoluted one, and is at a relatively early > > stage of development, so therefore the designers are forging ahead to > > completion of the foundation, and thus there are few who can devote > > the time to creating the documentation we newcomers need.' > > > My post on the book group defined the three classes of useful > > documents to be the Guidebook, the Encyclopedia, and the Cookbook. My > > role for the wiki is to hold Cookbook recipes which answer the most > > common 'how to' questions we encounter when building a website. > > > In my personal learning quest, I am extending the 'ToDo' app by adding > > pieces of functionality, like many-to-many tagging, date manipulation, > > deletion, an admin interface, etc. > > > As I come across solutions or questions, I post those on the group in > > order to help others and to get improvements and refinements from the > > members. > > > David is right... Lift and Scala together are taking web applications > > to a whole new level of performance, so naturally it will take a > > little time to make things happen. > > > By the way, today my copies of David's and Martin's Scala books > > arrived, and I urge all to purchase them yourselves! > > > On Jun 1, 3:35 pm, "Charles F. Munat" <c...@munat.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, Xavi, > > > > One of my tasks is to come up with a good organization for the wiki and > > > a site map, as well as a list of things we'd like to add to it. > > > Unfortunately, with the coming Scala/Liftoff and OSB conferences, I've > > > been swamped with other things. But I am working on it, albeit slowly. > > > If you have any specific recommendations, please post them. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Chas. > > > > Xavi Ramirez wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > I'm a bit confused about the future of the lift wiki. What's the end > > > > goal? In an ideal world is it supposed to be the main repository of > > > > lift knowledge, or just another documentation source? > > > > > I personally feel that having one repository of knowledge is much more > > > > noob friendly. Currently new members have to navigate through started > > > > guides, books, e-mail threads, scala docs, and personal blogs to find > > > > relative information. Though the get started guided and book provide > > > > a good introduction, it's hard to progress from novice to intermediate > > > > with these fragmented resources. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Xavi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
