Documentation Team Diary (Historical)


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Last updated at 6:55 am UTC on 5 April 2007

This is where Matthew Fulmer reported his progress before the Squeak Documentation Team mailing list was in use.

8 December 2006

Salvaged the useful pages from the old SqueakDoc swiki –Matthew Fulmer
Began organizing a complete, annotated Squeak Tutorial List –Matthew Fulmer

3 November 2006

Checked and cleaned up all short pages at and above Page 3720 –Matthew Fulmer

1 November 2006

Fixed all occurrences of "minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak" on the swiki –Matthew Fulmer

21 October 2006

Matthew Fulmer
- Created Swiki Page List and Swiki short page list
- began systematically fixing and tagging all pages is the short list
- I found a few mysterious pages that I thought were good: Where in the code is the image saved and loaded?

14 October 2006

The Refactoring the Swiki project has been officially picked up
The Squeak Documentation Team page has been re-organized

30 Sep 2006

Chapter 2 of the tutorial is ready
Research into Morphic is underway
Seven people have volunteered for the project; three of them have made contributions
The target audience has been finalized: the tutorial will be directed at programmers

23 Sep 2006

The documentation team was officially accepted by the Squeak board
Recruitment of volunteers began
Discussion about the outline and scope of the tutorial began

22 September 2006

Matthew Fulmer began updating and maintaining the Documentation index
A Squeak Tutorial begins –Matthew Fulmer

21 Sep 2006

A documentation team was officially proposed to the Squeak board. The project plan and participants are still subject to change.

20 Sep 2006

a documentation project was planned, awaiting input from the community.

We have a choice of where to host this project, whether on minnow.cc.gatech.edu or elswhere. http://en.wikibooks.org/ is an an appropriate alternative location, but it is probably not a good idea for several reasons:

It would lose all the history associated with this swiki
It would require rewriting a massive ammount of information
It would not be a Squeak-hosted product, violating one of Squeak's major design goals

What should we do? Here are the results that were collected from the community:

	#	percentage

Stay with Minnow	27	77.1 %
New MediaWiki	6	17.1 %
New Other Wiki	1	2.8 %
New Swiki	1	2.8 %
Wikibooks	0	0.0 %

total	35

Older News

[12-Dec-03] Jack Keel Working on Squeak in a Nutshell. As I clean up other pages or find particularly complete documentation by others I add them to my "in a Nutshell" index.
[10-Nov-03] on-going: cleaning up swiki pages (deleting outdated material and garbage; updating references; copy-editing)
[18-Mar-03] Chris Burkert:
- I have collected pages of this swiki starting at 1. I'm at page 600 but this will not be the end ;-)
  - Some that might be usefull for Documentation and eventually for translation in other languages. For this see *rememberMeForDocumentation*.
  - Others are garbage so please use those for *recycleMe*
  - Finally some have to be updated or refactored. See *updateMe* and *refactorMe*
[04-Mar-03] Hannes Hirzel: Following a suggestion by Serge Stinckwich I propose to build up a consensus on Wiki conventions.
[01-Mar-03] Chris Burkert:
- Cleaning up Squeak FAQ
[23-Feb-03] Chris Burkert:
- Cleaning up Swikipage Documentation as main TOC of Documentation
- Added [DOCS] to Title Tags on the Squeak Email List
- Created How to help us document Squeak
[17-Feb-03] Hannes Hirzel:
- Request to the list about concepts / quality assessment of the Databases and Persistence efforts. Collecting responses at the moment.
[16-Feb-03] Giovanni Giorgi:
- Squeak tutorial for Java programmers: http://daitanmarks.sourceforge.net/or/squeak/squeak_tutorial.html written not on the Swiki but in Squeak with Hyperlinks. (not done)
[09-Feb-03]: Would you please add your name here ?
- Continue harvesting questions from the mailing list and add them to the Squeak FAQ.
- Enhancing the Bibliography
[10-Mar-02] Doug Way:
- Refactoring the Swiki, and also working on making this swiki An Encyclopedic Swiki.
[16-Oct-99] Matthias Berth:
- I have just started the Squeak Cookbook. Your additions and enhancements are very welcome. (Let me confess that I'm a Newbie learning to Squeak, so I don't feel competent enough for this task.)