Re: [LAD] State of Plugin API's

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 07:10 +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On 11/02/2009 03:11 AM, David Robillard wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 12:09 +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not sure what the limitations of the existing system are but in
> >> general having a central location where all extensions are collated with
> >> explicit details about their usage and examples for how to write code
> >> for them them would go a long way to making the system more developer
> >> friendly.
> >>
> >> Providing a weekly/monthly mailout which lists the new extensions and a
> >> brief description with links to code examples and usage cases would also
> >> be helpful for developers who want to keep up to date with the latest
> >> offerings.
> >>
> >> Essentially spending some time on automating the notifications system
> >> now will be useful for everyone and could go a long way to increase the
> >> pickup and development rate for LV2 which is good for everyone.
> >>
> >>
> > The volume isn't really big enough for this, to be honest. We can set
> > up an RSS feed or something, or an announce list, but I really don't see
> > this as being an effective thing to worry about at this point in time.
> >
>
>
> I see it as being highly effective. Having a regular community wide
> update of useful LV2 news is a good thing (tm). For example it would be
> useful to have a monthly update for the wider community that is sent to
> the LAA list. the reason I suggest an automated letter is so that you or
> someone else doesn't have to manually compile the news. If LV2 really
> starts to take off (and it should) then we can expect to see literally
> thousands of plugins and extensions being produced over the coming
> years. Automating the process now gives us a head start.

Isn't this basically what LAA is for anyway? At the end of the day the
author of <whatever> needs to send the announcement to /somewhere/, you
can't automate news generation, it has to come from people somehow.

The fully automated thing is feasible for extensions published at
http://lv2plug.in/ but not much else.

This is an argument for using a CMS over a wiki though. It's easy to
make an RSS feed of a 'news' page and tag posts to go there. With a
wiki, not so much. The only real options are wordpress and drupal since
they are trivial to install on Dreamhost.

> > So maybe the best housekeepingey thing to do right now is get all the
> > content over to the wiki, and tidy up the wiki, then we can make it the
> > main page for http://lv2plug.in ?
> >
>
> This won't be a problem. I can start on this process on Wed. Feel free
> to contact me off list about the specific items you would like to get
> some attention.

Don't start until we're sure this is the best plan. It's not really
feasible to do the above stuff via mediawiki.

-dr

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