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brad
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:03 pm    Post subject: New Project Categories Reply with quote

Yo,

I'm thinking that our six existing categories are getting stretched thin. We currently have:
* Server Resources
* Development Tools
* Libraries - GUI
* Libraries - System
* Games
* Misc Apps

Any other ideas?

* Bindings
* ??

BA
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yossarian



Joined: 21 Jun 2006
Posts: 8

PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

* Ports?
* Libraries - data ?
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PsychoBrat



Joined: 23 Jul 2005
Posts: 22

PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd suggest:
  • Libraries - Misc (to prevent the other library categories being filled with projects that don't quite fit)
  • Editors/IDEs (not sure what this should be called; separates out compile/build/debug tools from the higher-level stuff)
I'm sure there are plenty more that would be appropriate, but I'm going under the knife tomorrow, so I probably should get some sleep! Razz
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jpelcis



Joined: 09 Mar 2006
Posts: 40

PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:39 pm    Post subject: A possibility Reply with quote

Let's go through what we have so far...

    Server Resources

    This is likely to remain relatively small. It can stay as-is.

    Development Tools

    This is becoming extremely crowded. Maybe it should be split as follows:
      Compilers, Compiler Tools, and Interpreters
        e.g. MiniD

      Debuggers
        e.g. DBug

      IDEs
        e.g. Poseidon

      External Languages
        e.g. PyD

      Other Development Tools
        e.g. DCoder


    Libraries-GUI

    This is small, but it could be better. Maybe:
      2d GUI Libraries
        e.g. DWT

      3d GUI Libraries
        e.g. Arc

      Multimedia Libraries
        e.g. rulesPlayer


    Libraries-System

    This one is starting to get big, too. How about:
      Runtime Libraries
        e.g. Ares

      Dedicated Libraries (better name though?)
        e.g. MathExtra

      Operating System Libraries
        e.g. Core32

      Operating System Kernels
        e.g. Titan


    Games

    This looks good, especially with the engines taken out.

    Misc. Apps

    Not much that can be done about this one. There will always be ones that don't fit in anywhere else. Bindings should either be moved here or expanded into its own category though.


That said, it would be extremely nice if libraries were sorted alphabetically within each category and if inactive projects were either on a different page or marked as such on the projects page. Either of those would make it far easier to find desired projects.
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brad
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, you've added another level of categories, which I don't necessarily like.

As for your requests on the project page itself, the recent switch to ajax calls will help achieve this. I'd even like to get to where you could put your favorite projects in a list somewhere and always see those at the top.
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jpelcis



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

brad wrote:

well, you've added another level of categories, which I don't necessarily like.


It doesn't need to be multi-level. That was simply to make it easier to see the existing system vs. my idea, as well as highlight where the current system is starting to be stretched thin.

brad wrote:

As for your requests on the project page itself, the recent switch to ajax calls will help achieve this. I'd even like to get to where you could put your favorite projects in a list somewhere and always see those at the top.


That's great to hear! That should make dsource a lot more user-friendly!
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PsychoBrat



Joined: 23 Jul 2005
Posts: 22

PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would you like me to put together a list of obviously inactive projects (i.e. ones stated as such by the maintainer) before new categories are put in place, or were you intending to review each project for placement in the new categories anyway?

[EDIT]
Ok, I see many of them have already had their forums retired to the 'Inactive' section. Are they to be moved to a similar section on the projects page, removed completely, flagged as inactive... or...?
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clayasaurus



Joined: 21 May 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd like to see...

* Libraries - Game

* Text processing development tools
- scripting langs
- bcd
- parser's
- language/grammar tools
- source code converters

* Debugging development tools

And jpelcis, Arc is a 2d game library which will happen to sport a GUI Wink
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