Hosting of the cookbook

Noel Welsh <noelwelsh-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.plt.schematics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Anton van Straaten <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for offering to host this.  The PLT folk have
indicated they are able but have some hoops to jump
through (i.e. appeasing their sys admins).

> Despite my desire to eat our own dog food and use
> Moshi, I think revision control is pretty important
> for a shared project like this.  There's also a lot
> of other functionality in Twiki.

  It's a tough call.  I agree TWiki has much useful
functionality.  This could be added to Moshi, some of
it fairly easily, but I'm not sure the effort in
reinventing the wheel is worth it.  Hmmmm...I'm
inclined to go with TWiki, as I don't think I'll get
around to adding all the useful stuff to Moshi in the
near future and it doesn't seem that anyone will do so
either.  Any thoughts from others?

> I have no idea whether Twiki is appropriate for
> collective book authoring,

It seems appropriate enough.  The only problem I
envisage (and the area where Moshi is nice) is
formatting Scheme code.  

> I don't want to jump the gun and create a Twiki area
> for Schematics unless others like the idea...  Twiki
> is organized into named "webs", so we could name a
> web 'Cookbook', unless we want to go for the more
> general 'Schematics', or both (with the latter being
> for non-cookbook material).

I vote going with the TWiki (and I think Cookbook is
appropriate) unless someone pitches in to help with
Moshi.

> BTW, longer term, perhaps a good idea would be for
> schematics to have its own domain name.

Agreed.  

> Unfortunately I see that schematics.org and .net is
> taken

Yeah.  Its especially annoying as neither are used. 
schematics.org actually expires 23-May-2004 10:15:32
UTC.  I don't know if its worth contacting the owner
([email protected]) to see if they'll consider not
renewing it when it expires.  schemoids.{net, org,
com} is still available :-/

Noel

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