Stack Overflow : a new site for programming Q&A.

[David Bovill]

Just taken a quick look - doesn't look much more than what you'd get with a
blog and a post rating system - or am I wrong? It work OK but the forum /
blog posting metaphor doesn't help much as the site scales - even with
keywords (which IMO are probably the most important navigation if you can
get people to use them). My take is that these things help - but you must
have a good contents / visual navigation system, and you have to make the
keywords work.

I'm currently fitting in building these elements into an open source code
resource for Rev built around Trac and subversion, with a WordPress blog. I
do this in my spare time, and is designed to be a free community resource,
so any community element is welcome. These web sites integrate with native
Rev interfaces, in particular the Script Editor and dictionary. The part I
am working on now is the visual navigation, and semi-automatic keyword
generation - the domain is simply rev-co.de <http://handlers.rev-co.de/>.
Once this is done I plan to upload the content, which are largely open
source code libraries and documentation. The content currently up there is
dummy content.

The aim is to build the documentation and collaboration element as closely
as possible into the Rev work flow of scripting. Current time plan is to
launch the sites and plugins for Xmas / New Year, but this will depend on
how busy I get with freelance work, or who else chips in :)

For anyone interested enough to work on this, the current plugins work with
GLX2 (and earlier) Script Editors, and the Rev 3.0 Script editors - when I
get time I'll start work on the Rose script Editor for Metacard. These
plugins are not ready for prime time yet - as they are biased around my own
set up and development needs (using subversion on OSX for instance), and the
50 or so libraires have not been documented and have interdependencies - so
if someone want the Flickr library - the only easy way for me to send it is
to distribute all 50 libraries. So unless you want to get into a development
process in which you download the entire environment and use the built in
Rev subversion componenet to receive and contribute updates - I'd wait util
Xmas:) By then there should be documented standalone libraries which act as
individual plugins withno need to use SVN.

2008/9/16 Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net>

> I saw on slashdot a link (
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html ) to Joel on
> Software's announcement of a new web site for Q&A on programming. The site
> itself ( http://stackoverflow.com/ ) looks interesting, and it just might
> be a good place to ask (and answer) questions about Rev, assuming the
> collaborative editing and voting system works well.
>
> Anyone think we should try it out ?
> What tag should we use ... Revolution ?  Transcript ?
>
> -- Alex.
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