[morph-developer] Help with build / Should we start a wiki?

[Matt S. <Mat...@wh...>]

Hi Matt B-

I just downloaded the latest from Morph and all the changes you've 
implemented look awesome.  It's good to see someone go through and fix 
some of my blundering attempts at proper synchronization ;)  I noticed 
the try/finally blocks you added to the SimpleDelegatingTransformer as 
well -- I wish I had thought about that!

One thing I'm having trouble with is getting the new build to work.  I 
can keep blundering away with it, but if you have any pointers or things 
you would recommend I read to understand Ivy, etc. I would greatly 
appreciate it.

This brings me to the other subject of the email, which is: should we 
start a wiki?  I'm thinking it could be more effective to have our 
documentation in a wiki so that anyone can modify it rather than 
basically restricting documentation modification to developers of 
Morph.  I know in theory a non-developer could download the source, 
submit a patch, and hope it gets excepted, but I think most users would 
be much more likely to contribute to a wiki than try to sync with SVN to 
make sure you're working with the latest, figure out where the reference 
document source is, figure out how to prepare a patch for it, submit the 
patch and watch it sit for 6 months.  Off the top of my head, wikia 
(for-profit wikipedia knockoff) has free wiki hosting that we could 
leverage.  Another possibility is to investigate what wiki software 
Apache is using in case we ever make the move over there (it would suck 
if there wasn't an automatic way to transfer the wiki information).  
Spider Strategies also recently started using wiki software so I might 
be able to get us our own wiki hosted on Spider servers using that software.

Matt S