Public communication channels (was: Mootools and String.prototype.contains)
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:34 PM, David Bruant <bruant.d at gmail.com> wrote:
2012/10/12 Alex Russell <slightlyoff at google.com>
I feel like there's as PSA we should write over on webplatform.org for library authors about how to not be future hostile.
Some context for those who wouldn't have followed.
The W3C, major (western?) browser makers,
Are there major browser engine makers not represented? AFAICT, most of the teams building HTML/JS/CSS engines are stewards (and many people have worked hard to make sure that's true!).
Nokia, Facebook, HP, Adobe (and probably others?) [1] have launched a new documentation platform this week called webplatform.org It's a wiki (based on MediaWiki, which is Wikipedia's engine). I think the content is CC-BY-licenced (though I haven't found the confirmation on the website itself). WebPlatform.org is in alpha stage for now [2].
Since it's in such an early stage and it's not really well-known and well-established, is webplatform.org the right place to do a PSA as you suggest?
Do you have a different suggesetion? It's hard to think of a place that will predictably see more traffic from folks writing libraries and such in the future. We can always add such a thing to the new ES wiki, I suppose.
2012/10/13 Alex Russell <slightlyoff at google.com>
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:34 PM, David Bruant <bruant.d at gmail.com> wrote:
Since it's in such an early stage and it's not really well-known and well-established, is webplatform.org the right place to do a PSA as you suggest?
Do you have a different suggesetion?
Where would have that happened before webplatform.org? The answer to your question was the next sentense
It's hard to think of a place that will predictably see more traffic from
folks writing libraries and such in the future. We can always add such a thing to the new ES wiki, I suppose.
Dev evangelists could just write blogposts on the topic. It would have much more impact in my opinion.
Mozilla has hacks, Microsoft has the IEBlog, Google has HTML5Rocks, Opera
has its dev blog, Facebook does too and so on... These channels worked well to announce webplatform.org. Why wouldn't they for the PSA you talked about?
2012/10/12 Alex Russell <slightlyoff at google.com>
Some context for those who wouldn't have followed.
The W3C, major (western?) browser makers, Nokia, Facebook, HP, Adobe (and probably others?) [1] have launched a new documentation platform this week called webplatform.org It's a wiki (based on MediaWiki, which is Wikipedia's engine). I think the content is CC-BY-licenced (though I haven't found the confirmation on the website itself). WebPlatform.org is in alpha stage for now [2].
Since it's in such an early stage and it's not really well-known and well-established, is webplatform.org the right place to do a PSA as you suggest? Dev evangelists could just write blogposts on the topic. It would have much more impact in my opinion.
The level of cooperation and coordination of the different actors around webplatform.org has been impressive. Until webplatform.org reaches a sufficient level of maturity, maybe there is something to leverage if we want any sort of PSA to be efficiently received.
David
[1] www.webplatform.org/stewards [2] docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:FAQ