Re: Proposal for new Octave website

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Alex Krolick
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, if one cannot edit directly links will go stale, 
> > mistakes go unfixed. The wiki has the advantage that one can just update at 
> > will. I wonder if some solution can be found so it becomes easy to edit 
> > these new pages.
>
> I made the site with Jekyll, which is a static site generator. The main pages 
> are all Markdown---pretty easy to edit. The index is plain HTML but not too 
> bad to work with, in my opinion. Considering the current site is also static, 
> this should probably be a separate discussion point once the content is 
> hammered out.
>
> > What about a buttons that says "Packages" or "Extend Octave"
>
> The Forge section could be bumped up into the installation section and a link 
> could be added to the top bar, but I am not sure if that information is 
> useful to newcomers. New users won't know what packages they need until they 
> are familiar with the core library. There should probably be a Getting 
> Started guide that covers the basic architecture of the project, syntax, 
> usage of the basic modules, etc. at a level between the syntax examples and 
> the docs.
>
Make sense and sounds good to me.

>
>
> -Alex
>
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Doug Stewart <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Alex Krolick <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I just added sections for octave-forge here:
>>>> http://whokilledtheelectricmonk.github.io/octave-web/#develop
>>>> http://whokilledtheelectricmonk.github.io/octave-web/contribute/#octave-forge
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Alex
>>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> I would suggest to add after this:
>>> "
>>>
>>> Installing packages
>>>
>>> You can find the list of packages here. To install a package, use the pkg 
>>> command from the Octave prompt by typing:
>>>
>>> pkg install -forge package_name
>>>
>>> where package_name is the name of the package you want to install.
>>> "
>>>
>>> To now  use the package it must be "loaded".
>>>
>>> pkg load package_name
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have had to explain this to beginners, so it would be nice to have this 
>>> much info right at the start.
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Doug Stewart <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While asking for contributions for a new website, Alex Krolick has
>>>>>> contributed the following proposal:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     http://whokilledtheelectricmonk.github.io/octave-web/install/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Source code:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     https://github.com/whokilledtheelectricmonk/octave-web
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think it looks really good. Alex seems interested in contributing
>>>>>> this as our new website. What does everyone else think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Jordi G. H.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I took a quick look and did not see anything about Octave forge!!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> I think it is very important to introduce forge and the idea of added 
>>>>> packages, at this top level.
>>>>> Doug
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> DAS
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> DAS
>>>
>>
>> Cold it bepossible to have a more principal participantion of Forge?
>> At the moment it looks like something only developers or savy uers should 
>> know about.
>> What about a buttons that says "Packages" or "Extend Octave".
>> I do not feel strongly about it, but it will help bringing forge and octave 
>> together in the mind of the user.
>>
>