Re: Proposal for new Octave website

[Alex Krolick]

> On the other hand, if one cannot edit directly links will go stale, mistakes go unfixed. The wiki has the advantage that one can just update at will. I wonder if some solution can be found so it becomes easy to edit these new pages.

I made the site with Jekyll, which is a static site generator. The main pages are all Markdown---pretty easy to edit. The index is plain HTML but not too bad to work with, in my opinion. Considering the current site is also static, this should probably be a separate discussion point once the content is hammered out.

> What about a buttons that says "Packages" or "Extend Octave"

The Forge section could be bumped up into the installation section and a link could be added to the top bar, but I am not sure if that information is useful to newcomers. New users won't know what packages they need until they are familiar with the core library. There should probably be a Getting Started guide that covers the basic architecture of the project, syntax, usage of the basic modules, etc. at a level between the syntax examples and the docs.

-Alex

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Doug Stewart <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Alex Krolick <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi all,

I just added sections for octave-forge here:
http://whokilledtheelectricmonk.github.io/octave-web/#develop
http://whokilledtheelectricmonk.github.io/octave-web/contribute/#octave-forge

-Alex

Thanks.

I would suggest to add after this:

"

Installing packages

You can find the list of packages here. To install a package, use the pkg command from the Octave prompt by typing:

pkg install -forge package_name 

where package_name is the name of the package you want to install.

"

To now  use the package it must be "loaded".

pkg load package_name

I have had to explain this to beginners, so it would be nice to have this much info right at the start.

Doug

 

 

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Doug Stewart <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

While asking for contributions for a new website, Alex Krolick has
contributed the following proposal:

    http://whokilledtheelectricmonk.github.io/octave-web/install/

Source code:

    https://github.com/whokilledtheelectricmonk/octave-web

I think it looks really good. Alex seems interested in contributing
this as our new website. What does everyone else think?

- Jordi G. H.

I took a quick look and did not see anything about Octave forge!!!!

I think it is very important to introduce forge and the idea of added packages, at this top level.

Doug

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DAS

Cold it bepossible to have a more principal participantion of Forge?

At the moment it looks like something only developers or savy uers should know about.

What about a buttons that says "Packages" or "Extend Octave".

I do not feel strongly about it, but it will help bringing forge and octave together in the mind of the user.