[CM] s7-playground (interactive tutorial) update

[Woody Douglass]

Really all it'll take is for somebody to create a github organization and allow me to create repositories, and transferring ownership of the s7 repo will be pretty straightforward.



On 2020-09-26 14:05:02-04:00 cmdist-bounces at ccrma.Stanford.EDU wrote:


On the github stuff -- I read somewhere (hacker news probably)
that this is a "generational problem" -- old-timers don't
see any benefit in "project management tools" whatever that
means, and young folks can't imagine life without them.
I don't even have a smartphone.
 I think I read the same thread. Was that on the emacs direction thread? :-)
I think one thing that is a really big advantage of github presence though, is visibility. Sourceforge has sadly languished and is now a nightmare of advertising, and awful web design and navigation, whereas on github it is very easy to quickly take stock of how much is going on and by whom in an open source project. The reason I personally think this is important is that there is *more* s7 activity than one would be led to believe by a glance at sourceforge. For my purposes, github is great because I do want to attract users to Scheme For Max, in the hope of eventually finding more contributors. Github makes it very easy for potential users to watch, fork, see the activity by ticket, etc, all with no advertising. I don't need the tooling, it's just me so far, but I know that to attract other devs, they will want to have access to this, and it makes it smooth to work with them in a gradual manner.
Of course I realize this is moot if one is not concerned about attracting users, and that is of course up to you. But I would humbly put forth that this is why it's attractive to those of us using S7 in contexts where we want to attract uptake and build a bit of a community :-)
iain
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