[Dithaka-devel] Re: dithaka on sourceforge

[Thomas F. <tfo...@us...>]

Sending this to the dev list as well :)

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 14:11 +0200, Pieter van Zyl wrote:
> I don't mind doing the documentation, technical docs and read me etc.

Excellent. I think we need txt and html versions for the readmes. For
the technical docs html should be fine. Perhaps Rich could review the
technical docs once you're done? He'd probably be able add something
about how the Resources work.

> What does the name mean?

Dithaka is a Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa) word that means
(according to http://africanlanguages.com/sdp/)
       1. mates, companions
       2. glands
       3. pips
       4. seeds of the leraka (= vegetable marrow)
       5. eyeballs
       6. tonsils
In our context, I guess "companions" is the most appropriate :)

Richard and Andries will know better.

> We will need to discuss the website creation.

Yip, we do. It would be nice to have a "cool" site with a distinctive
L&F, while still providing useful info. Alternatively, we could do what
coefficient does - i.e. use Maven to generate the site html. See:
http://coefficient.sourceforge.net/

We do still need logos etc.

> On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 14:01 +0200, Thomas Fogwill wrote:
> > What we need:
> > ------------
> > (1) All code in CVS. I'm busy with the initial upload. The 3 separate
> > bits exist in 3 different modules. See (once it's all uploaded):
> > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/dithaka/
> > 
> > (2) Project docs. We need:
> >   - technical docs (for developers)
> >   - installation docs 
> >   - README.txt, TODO.txt, KNOWN_ISSUES.txt, etc.
> >   - user guides (maybe??)
> > 
> > (3) Project home page 
> > (html docs to go here: http://dithaka.sourceforge.net/ )
> >   - what the projects is
> >   - what the name means
> >   - technologies used
> >   - some more fluff about the project
> >   - development standards and process docs
> >   - etc.
> > 
> > I would recommend that all of this (docs + project website) be put in
> > CVS. For coefficient, I have a daily cron job that builds and uploads
> > the documentation. This makes it easy to manage and maintain the docs.
> > I'll do something similar for dithaka.
> > 
> > Volunteers for writing some of this?
> > 


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