Re: GSoC Plan for Agora

[c.]

On 22 Jun 2013, at 15:24, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 21 June 2013 20:12, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Let us think about the tasks you proposed:
>> 
>>    1. Development of a discussion forum where people post their
>>       problems and can get help from the community.
> 
> I don't think that a discussion forum is important at all. Agora is
> supposed to be a platform for sharing code, something like CPAN, not
> to request help. A comment box for each entry (youtube style) should
> be enough. To find help we already have the mailing list, and for
> those who prefer to interact it "forum style" there's nabble.
> 
>>    2. Development of a section to help creation of documentation of
>>       the Octave.
> 
> Don't bother. There's the wiki and the manual for that. The only thing
> I see about documentation is that when packages and snippets are
> uploaded they will have the documentation in the source. Possibly in
> TexInfo. It would be nice to display it properly formatted.
> 
>>    3. Improvements to current bundle system handling and a whole
>>       section of example code.
> 
> This is what Agora is supposed to do. Please do this first.
> 
>>    4. A tutorial section.
> 
> No. Don't do this. There's a manual and a wiki.
> 
>>    5. Merging of FAQs and general help into the Agora system.
> 
> Don't do this.
> 
> Carnë

I was about to write my own comments, 
but essentially I completely agree with what Carnë said.

Let's give up on all the non-essential bells and whistles and get 
the bundle upload/comments part of the site working.

c.