[MacRuby-devel] Any volunteers to help maintain http://www.macruby.org?

[Matt Aimonetti]

Haha, let's add that to the todo list.

Writing a GUI for webby shouldn't be that hard using MacRuby + webkit.
Integration with git can easily be done using grit
http://grit.rubyforge.org/ (we don't even need to fork or push to the repo,
we can save the blog posts as gists http://gisthub.com/ check Greg's macruby
project to see how he did it: http://github.com/atduskgreg/drift/tree/master)

Anyone feels like hacking on a cool little project? (it would be a nice demo
project to ship with MacRuby ;) )

- Matt

p.s: Jordan, why do Apple people always want others to do things in a
easier/more intuitive way? ;)


On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh at apple.com> wrote:

> Gosh, if only there were some way of writing some sort of graphical
> application which could make composing, previewing and submitting blog posts
> like this a one or two button click operation rather than having to do all
> those tedious manual steps!  It would have to have a nice looking UI, of
> course, and some widgets for previewing HTML/other content.  If it could
> also be written in some sort of high-level language which let one do this in
> the fewest lines of code, well that would be just icing on the cake!   Man,
> it's just too bad we don't have anything that fancy and have to send people
> to the command-line all the time instead! ;-)
> - Jordan
>
>
> On Aug 19, 2009, at 10:01 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>
> Alright, things are now setup and contribution should be easier (patches
> against svn are also accepted).
>
> How to contribute content for the website using github:
>
> *  fork the website repo on github:
> http://github.com/mattetti/macruby_website/
> * clone and pull your branch locally
> * create a new topic branch, work on the post, git rebase
> interactive/squash commits
> * push your branch/commit to your branch and email the list/me to let us
> know that the article is ready
> * I'll cherry pick your commit and push it to the svn repo
> * after verification, Laurent will redeploy the site.
>
> Advice:
>
> * try to communicate with other contributors so we don't end up with 2
> people working on the same post.
> * if you want to cover something that isn't a status update or major
> change, please get in touch with one of us or post to the mailing list.
> * I might be on a trip or not available so don't hesitate to send me a
> reminder or contact the mailing list if I don't get back to you.
>
> Technical details about the blog engine:
>
> The website is developed using webby http://webby.rubyforge.org/
> You obviously need to have webby installed on your machine. ($ sudo gem
> install webby)
> Using $ webby autobuild will let you preview the site in your browser.(it
> should run and open http://localhost:4331/)
> To create a new blog post template, simply do: $ webby blog:post
>
> Mike, if that's ok with you, could you write a tutorial ($ webby
> create:tutorial ) on how to write and submit a blog post?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Matt
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Matt Aimonetti <mattaimonetti at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mike, I already wrote your name down ;)
>> I'm working on setting up some stuff so contributing will be easier.
>>
>> Once everything setup, I'll write an email explaining how to contribute
>> and maybe the first task would be to write a tutorial on how to contribute
>> content to the website :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Matt
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Mike Sassak <msassak at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm game. Where do I sign up?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On Aug 19, 2009 6:22 PM, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh at apple.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> As folks can see, there IS a blog there, but it was last updated back in
>>> March, Laurent & friends preferring to use email for communicating status.
>>>  Since we have a blog, however, it also makes sense to keep it relatively
>>> current for those folks who are new to the macruby.org site and looking
>>> for signs of life.  This is obviously not a highly technical task we're
>>> talking about, just transcribing the highlights of the email status reports
>>> and whatever else seems to be topical (the recent merge of the experimental
>>> branch to trunk, for example).
>>>
>>> This would also be a fine task for a more junior project member looking
>>> for an opportunity to start contributing to the project without having to
>>> grok the mysteries of MacRuby's internals first, and it's an important
>>> contribution since it will help keep folks who enjoy scanning blogs (but not
>>> subscribing to mailing lists) up to date!
>>>
>>> Any takers?
>>>
>>> - Jordan
>>>
>>>
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