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[sc-dev] Re: SC 2 list archives proposal



On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 08:47 PM, Lee Azzarello wrote:


I'm going over the list archives at lists.io.com and I realized that
there's a lot of great stuff there but it's all burried. I think it would
be a bennefit to us still using SC2 for performance (unless I'm the only
one) to have a web-accessable archive. This would make google searches for
the word supercollider yield better results than a couple of academic
sites and audiosynth.com

and a lot of physicists.


Since the list seems to have moved to CREATE, which is using Mailman, the
io.com archives would not have to be maintained, just processed and
HTML-ized once, which would be pretty simple.

Of course I plan on converting all email addresses to the safer
(read: less spam harvester friendly)
name (at) host.com

Would anyone object?

ideally i would like to see a wiki with the documentation on it.
user commentary (like php.net). the problem with php.net is the commentary gets too long and isn't sorted by importance. a wiki can be set up to add commentary in a threaded fashion,
and then editor people can link those together to clarify stuff later.

on each of those pages a link that would search the archives of all sc mailing lists.
links to further explorations of specific concepts or classes.

a daily or weekly automatic copy of that wiki documentation to an offline downloadable format.
(html or better: sc files)

someone mentioned exporting html for the apple help. i assume one can pass a query to apple help from inside the application. but its also nice in sc2 to have integrated examples that you can play.
command-?

david cottle, have you accepted the nomination of Overseer of Documentation ?
what are your feelings ?  do ya dig wikis ?

i have a php wiki that works okay.



-l[e^2]
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