Re: [Bluemusic-users] blue Manual
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From: Steven Yi <ste...@gm...> - 2010-10-26 17:50:59
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Hi Dave and Menno, Thanks for your input. I'm leaning towards a Wiki currently, and no longer packaging anything with the app but pointing everything to the Wiki. If we use a Wiki, we can have a "Manual" section, FAQ, sandbox, etc. I think blueShare should continue to be blueShare, but having a wiki area to collaborate on instrument designs/projects/etc. could work nicely. Now, perhaps more a question for Dave, as I know you do work with ruby and I assume rails: do you know of any good ruby plugins for integrating a wiki into an application? I'm thinking it would be nice to limit wiki access to users who are registered on the blue site with accounts to help prevent spam. On the other hand, using something like media wiki and styling/integrating it into the blue site is an option as well. (Looks like wiki.rubyonrails.org is using dokuwiki itself) Anyone's opinions on this would be very much appreciated! As for generated output, maybe we can find a plugin generate PDF from the wiki? Thanks! steven On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Dave Seidel <da...@su...> wrote: > Hi Steven, > > I think a web-based project would be great, either a wiki or something > along the lines of what sites like the PHP and MySQL sites do, i.e., > articles/pages with user comments (annotations). > > - Dave > > On 10/25/2010 7:12 PM, Steven Yi wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm going through and trying to get my bearings again on blue >> development. I've also recently switched to using a Macbook Pro >> full-time (I'm using it for work as I'm doing a fair amount of iPhone >> and Android development which I can do all on the same machine), >> though I'm still working out Csound compilation/installation and >> getting blue setup. >> >> I wanted to ask though, does anyone have any thoughts on the blue >> Manual? Or I should say, knowing that the blue manual is very much >> out of date, I would like to begin working on it again, though I am >> not sure what format/system I should use to create it. I thought about >> using a wiki, using flossmanuals.net, and using Google Docs. While >> Docbook creates excellent output, I'm thinking that it might be easier >> for me to maintain a manual if I was able to use some sort of web app. >> It would also give a side benefit of speeding up release compilation >> of blue, as well as remove some dependencies to make it easier for >> developers to download/compile/go with blue. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks! >> steven >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest >> Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada >> $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing >> Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Bluemusic-users mailing list >> Blu...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluemusic-users >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bluemusic-users mailing list > Blu...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluemusic-users > |