Hi folks, wondering if we can talk about pure-data.info. It's a real mess of brutally outdated pages mixed in with really helpful pages. What is the policy for become an editor? Is there anyone in charge of the site? I feel like a not-minor obstacle to people becoming more involved in Pd is wading through all the out of date pages trying to find the goods.
At any rate, I'm about to tackle building s4pd for windows, so I could capture what I go through to update that area if it's helpful.
thanks for listening iain
Em dom., 10 de out. de 2021 às 13:36, Iain Duncan iainduncanlists@gmail.com escreveu:
Hi folks, wondering if we can talk about pure-data.info.
yes we can
It's a real mess of brutally outdated pages mixed in with really helpful pages.
yeah, totally
What is the policy for become an editor?
anyone can jump in and edit, for the good or bad :) just get an account and log in https://puredata.info/join_form
Something that I think would help a lot would be if we could tag links somehow (not just on the page, but from their menu) with an indication of how old they are. Like maybe change the template so that it shows how old each page is, blog style, before you navigate to it.
I also think some way of archiving pages would help, so that when one goes to a section, it's easy to tell what's current. For example, I went here today https://puredata.info/docs/developer, and honestly, it I felt like it was going to take longer to sort out what is up to date than it would to just find the information elsewhere. :-/
I am literally dealing with this exact thing at my money work, so it's not like it's a phenomenon reserved for open source. Systems where anyone can write and contribute without any kind of central oversight really have a way of becoming a quagmire of outdated or miscategorized content because it's easy to write more, but folks are reluctant (understandably) to prune other people's content. Not sure what the answer is, but it seems like that's the case to me.
my two cents canadian!
On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 10:15 AM Alexandre Torres Porres porres@gmail.com wrote:
Em dom., 10 de out. de 2021 às 13:36, Iain Duncan < iainduncanlists@gmail.com> escreveu:
Hi folks, wondering if we can talk about pure-data.info.
yes we can
It's a real mess of brutally outdated pages mixed in with really helpful pages.
yeah, totally
What is the policy for become an editor?
anyone can jump in and edit, for the good or bad :) just get an account and log in https://puredata.info/join_form
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