[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell web development entries on the Wiki

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Christopher Done wrote:

On 2 October 2010 22:13, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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I understand the advantages to splitting into multiple pages, but on the other hand it *does* make it more difficult to locate information.

It does? What's an example? I'll fix it.

It was more of a general comment. When everything's on the same page, I can do ctrl-f "happ" and find information about all the pieces of happstack. As I said, I think a search function is a good replacement.

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My guess is a good search function on the wiki will make that point moot.

Probably!

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* Does pass.net still exist anywhere? Same for parallel web.

I couldn't find any references to pass.net.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Web/Existing_software

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* Should older, unmaintained stuff (Wash, for example) be removed entirely, placed on its own page or be obviously marked as unmaintained?

Yes, I think so. There are a lot of frameworks on that page that are just cluttering it up, most of them are unmaintained or don't really have a big user-base. Perhaps we should split it to Active / Recommended  and  Inactive / Unevaluated or something like that. If I was looking for web frameworks I'd want to know which ones were actively maintained and then *maybe* what other ones there are. It could well be two pages. Frameworks/Active or Recommended_Frameworks and then the other. I'm not sure. Thoughts, chaps?

I would recommend *not* qualifying the active/recommended stuff. Maybe "Frameworks" and "Frameworks/Inactive". I personally wouldn't want to group new, unevaluated code with inactive: I think we should give the new players the same publicity as the established products on the main page, but perhaps with a little label explaining how new/untested it is. Michael