Livecode Podcast Player

[David Bovill]

I guess not - could not find anything in the forums or email thread.
On 21 Oct 2020, 20:17 +0100, JeeJeeStudio via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> You've just hijacked someone's thread...you said something last time. It's
> now a totally different subject.

That’s fine :) It’s kind of related to the general subject of community contribution. My understanding is that the general approach to that has not helped produce an organised collection of material - whether this is the documentation, or the library of Livecode components. There is the usual tension between centralised quality control and wiki like easy open community contribution.

I agree with Sean that we can all contribute to this, but a little improvement in the architecture that supports such collaboration would also help I believe. It is harder than I think necessary to find stacks and code related to for instance podcasts and RSS feeds. I’m pretty sure that this has been worked on multiple times over the last 10 years, but the combination of forum, email, and resource library does not do justice to what we could achieve.

Maybe I’m wrong - and no one has produced a podcast player in Livecode? My understanding is that an easy to contribute set of tools that made it easier to share stacks and code would help here. As I see it the attempts that have been made historically have been somewhat too “closed” for there to the right sort of community contribution.

I can mainly speak for my personal experience, but if I produce this podcast player, and various libraries for it - then historically I haven't really see a good way to share that. When I come across errors or improvements I want to make to the dictionary I don’t really see how, or have quite enough faith that my contributions will valued - so I make a note to “do that later” and well - don’t.

There is a form of federated architecture for user contributions that looks promising that can help. Essentially the trick is to combine both that ability of people to make their own personal notes / changes and contributions by forking existing material, while also making it very easy to combine these contributions into an editorial synopsis. That way each Livecode author wold have a tool for their own personal productivity use, and the overall community gets the value of the shared content production. Right now the balance between my personal space and the sharing is in an unhealthy state of mediation.