Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-10 Thread Glyph
On Oct 10, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Itamar Turner-Trauring wrote: > Oh - I am going to need admin permission on the wiki, I can't actually > edit the front page right now :) You should be an admin now. ___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedma

Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-10 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
Oh - I am going to need admin permission on the wiki, I can't actually edit the front page right now :) ___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python

Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-10 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 09:47 -0400, Glyph wrote: > Unless someone has a serious objection, I think we should replace the front > page later today. (Itamar, do you want to do the honors, or shall I?) I'll try to do it this evening, after adding syntax highlighting (half manually, ugh) and fixing

Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-10 Thread Glyph
On Oct 10, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Itamar Turner-Trauring wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 09:20 +0200, Albert Brandl wrote: >> The following summary of Twisted projects on the current homepage might >> be a good completion of the first paragraph: >> >>> Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SS

Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-10 Thread Glyph
On Oct 9, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Itamar Turner-Trauring wrote: > Our current page is not good at pulling in potential new users: > > * There's no quick examples of how nice Twisted is. > * It takes 3 clicks (3!) to find basic documentation, with lots of >scope for getting lost along

Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-10 Thread Glyph
On Oct 10, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Jonathan Lange wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Itamar Turner-Trauring > wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 11:22 +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: >>> Nice effort. I also believe that getting down to the details (the >>> code) will get a lot more people interested.

Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-10 Thread Jonathan Lange
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Itamar Turner-Trauring wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 11:22 +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: >> Nice effort.  I also believe that getting down to the details (the >> code) will get a lot more people interested. >> >> One question: "Scalable web applications"?   What mak

Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-10 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 11:22 +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: > Nice effort. I also believe that getting down to the details (the > code) will get a lot more people interested. > > One question: "Scalable web applications"? What makes them scalable? > > Either drop the word, or explain. Hm. I need

Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-10 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 09:20 +0200, Albert Brandl wrote: > > Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python and > > licensed under the MIT license. > > Is the license really so important that it should be mentioned in the > first paragraph? If it is, you might want to consider sp

Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-10 Thread Johan Rydberg
Nice effort. I also believe that getting down to the details (the code) will get a lot more people interested. One question: "Scalable web applications"? What makes them scalable? Either drop the word, or explain. -- Johan Rydberg Product Designer Edgeware AB Mäster Samuelsgatan 56 SE-111

Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-10 Thread Albert Brandl
Hi! On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 02:44:41PM -0400, Itamar Turner-Trauring wrote: > http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/ProposedWikiStart > > What do you think? I like the approach to instantly "dive into" the library by showing some code. But I have a programming background - not sure if all (relevan

Re: [Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-09 Thread Stephen Waterbury
On 10/09/2011 02:44 PM, Itamar Turner-Trauring wrote: > Our current page is not good at pulling in potential new users: > >* There's no quick examples of how nice Twisted is. >* It takes 3 clicks (3!) to find basic documentation, with lots of > scope for getting lost along

[Twisted-Python] Proposed new homepage

2011-10-09 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
Our current page is not good at pulling in potential new users: * There's no quick examples of how nice Twisted is. * It takes 3 clicks (3!) to find basic documentation, with lots of scope for getting lost along the way. I propose to fix this by adding code examples, and relev