From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-02-03T06:59:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Python 25 times as popular as Ruby !?

On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 6:35:03 AM, Martin wrote:

> Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:
 
>> It's not a community push that would finish it; it's devotion from a
>> few core people and proofreading from a few more.

> I believe with the right framework, a community push *could* finish it.
> By the right framework, I mean something that would make it trivial for
> someone to load up a webpage, see a precise and categorised list of
> parts needing to be done, and be able to fill in a missing task, or
> perhaps add some notes to a wikipage for that task. A wiki is not
> suitable for the main organisation, note - it's too unstructured. And
> the varioouus faq-o-matic programs I've seen, where people contribute
> questions and other people answer them, don't focus enough on the big
> picture. Maybe something like bugzilla could be adapted for the task -
> not familiar enough with that.

> Another advantage is that it'd let us easily pool togeher code from all
> the existing cookbook projects out there, and would provide a natural
> framework within which we could extend this beyond the confines of the
> perl cookbook.

I'll take that as a 'yes', then?  Cool, I'll send you the code and
data soon :)  I think a manual submission process is suitable, with
the maintainer updating the data files.  But that's just in this case.
You can decide that when you recieve it :)

Cheers,
Gavin