[Labs-l] Visibility of tools

Wed Feb 20 16:07:10 UTC 2013

On 20/02/13 16:02, Harry Burt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org
> <mailto:marc at uberbox.org>> wrote:
>       I think an important part of this would be to have a Wiki where
> the mainspace is the tools' information and description.  I wouldn't
> even want to limit it to Labs-hosted tools; there are plenty of
> community developers that cannot or do not need to be hosted at the labs
> whose work is nevertheless valuable to the projects and would deserve
> being known about.
> 
> As you may be aware Coren, the Toolserver has tried to maintain its own
> list of tools in the past, and indeed still maintains an amount of
> documentation on the Toolserver wiki. Note that the main issue is not
> the availability of a space, it's whether tool developers can be
> bothered to document their own tools. Whether they can be bothered is
> itself a factor of traffic: at the moment, I think most Toolserver
> developers see the primary discovery route to be via their local wiki,
> rather than a central one. I don't expect that to change.

If we follow the idea of one project per tool, we can make a list with
each tool, there could be an automatic at the root, so that even if
there's no description for one tool, at least it shows its existence.