I absolutely agree that incremental is the way to go, I am slow doer anyway ;)
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:26 PM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > > Le 19/1/15 22:21, kilon alios a écrit : > > Ok then I think the best way to do this is to start this in my own github > account then give you guys the link , review the documentation and if you > find satisfying add it to SquareBracketAssociates via forking it, if not I > can still continue it with my github account. Of course I will use pillar > and follow the same workflow as PBE. I don't want to do this via blog posts > , I prefer pillar and github. > > We can create a repo on > > > PBE wise looks like from what I see from a first look that 12 out 16 > chapters are ported. So PBE is near completion at least at a draft level. I > can give a hand with a couple more chapters thats not a big deal. > > Thanks. We will have to read it again. I have to check (I got stuck in the > model chapter and the first one). > > There is no Pharo book for Morphic and for me this is a big omission. > Frankly I would take even a small docs about Morphic and Pharo 3/4 over no > documentation at all, any day. > > > Sure > Just read what I said. > Go incremental. > > I am not saying that you should contribute to a Morphic book I mean this > is your choice but its something I want to work on. If people want to > contribute all they have to do is fork my repo and send me pull requests or > even add them as contributors. If they dont want, no problemo I continue > alone. > > In any case when I have something substantial (something more than 30 > pages) I will alert the list. > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:31 PM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > >> >> Hello people, I am really interested since PBE seems to go very well to >>> now concentrate on a project I had in mind for some time and it is to start >>> a book on Pharo Morphic. >>> >> >> I would start small and for example as a series of blog posts. >> Then we you reach a certain amount I would then turn them into a book. >> >> For Spec we plan to collect all the material and have a small booklet. >> >> >>> My plan is to add it to github group SquareBracketAssociates which I am >>> member of for contributing to the new PBE. >>> >>> Is that ok with you ? >>> >> >> it is ok but now the strategy I adopted is the following one: >> - avoid to have many unfinished books (or many not making progress or >> slow progress) >> - this is why I have work in progress to work on the chapters, ready >> for reviews then the chapters will populate the books >> - this way I do not give the impression that Pharo is starting stuff >> and not finishing >> - I would suggest the same: host some chapter in the work in progress >> and when you enough push that to a book. >> >> I finished an editorial pass on deep into pharo and will continue to work >> on Pharo by example, then resume my work on >> the other books (slow is n't it :)). >> >> >>> I will try to port all documentation available already for Morphic from >>> self and squeak to Pharo 4 and of course add my own pages as well. >>> >> There is not much available, or exciting but you can start there. >> >> >> I also have forgot my travis password, I have asked here before but none >>> replied, so if anyone can help me recover my password or create a new one >>> or create a job for the project , I will appreciate it. >>> >> >> travis I do not know. >> >> >>> Obviously I want to make this project according to the guidelines of the >>> community. So if you have suggestions fire away :) >>> >>> I would like this to be the official book on Morphic , I want it to be >>> both a tutorial but also a reference book with more emphasis on the >>> reference side. Probably will divide in into a Part 1 and a Part 2 where >>> Part 1 is the tutorial and Part 2 is the reference. >>> >>> I dont expect to of course to do a ton of work and finish this book any >>> time soon, but then something is better than nothing. >>> >> >> >> > >
