I would like to make an important note here. Up to my knowledge, the new documentation site project is personal initiative of Alexander (Altai-man) of which nobody of RSC members was informed about. For this reason it is rather unlikely that any notification would be issued on any official channel, would such one existed. I personally got to know about it the moment Alexander posted his request for help on IRC.
Apparently, the above paragraph doesn't say that we don't need an official channel of a kind. I was asking a similar question ~1.5yr ago. As it is with many other matters, this one needed some time to gain momentum. Perhaps, the time has come to get it answered. Concerning the accidental duplication of projects, aside of the fact that it is dissipation of scarce community resources, the good side is that there will be two options to choose from. I will be happy to see both project launched. One could eventually become part of the official site, the other may be ran independently. One way or another I hope there will be more gains from it than loses. Best regards, Vadim Belman > On Mar 13, 2021, at 2:21 AM, Richard Hainsworth <rnhainswo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > This is a request to the Raku Coordinating Council that was elected at the > end of last year. > > Please name a channel where community wide plans or announcements are made. > Or may be establish one. > > I found out yesterday by the intervention of a regular participant in the > community that a new documentation website is being worked on. > > I joined a conversation on the raku-dev IRC and discovered that the plans are > quite far established. Since I have been working full-time for three months > on a project that could (not should!!) serve as the infra-structure of a new > site, I was really quite surprised and I am sure many of you will understand > it was jarring. > > I follow all the conversations on this email list. I have found it very > difficult (due to my own technical incompetence relating to github) to set up > my github preferences to get regular notification about issues. I have also > found that the IRC chats are streams of consciousness that are difficult for > me to manage. > > It seems however, that it is my fault that I was taken by surprise by the > news of a different documentation website and that I should have been > following all the issues on the documentation repo or the problem solving > repo. > > It *IS* reasonable for Raku developers and community organisers to make it > the responsibility of a participant to follow conversations, but I would > suggest that the current scattering of conversations, on the IRC chat, > various github repositories, this email list, is not *optimal* for the > development of a coherent Raku community. It is also - I would suggest - a > waste of human resources if the same objectives are pursued by multiple > enthusiasts without any coordination or communication. > > If the Raku Council were to designate some channel, whether its an email > list, an IRC chat, or a github repo, or maybe a discord or slack or other > channel as the main community resource, then I would make sure I could read > all the messages there and stay in touch with what is happening. > > Hence my request to the Raku council to consider improving communication > between developers and the wider Raku community. > > Regards > > Richard Hainsworth > > aka finanalyst > >
