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Should we list tools and libraries on solidproject.org?

Open jeff-zucker opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

A related issue to https://github.com/solid/solidproject.org/issues/161 is the tools and libraries page. I've cleverly procrastinated moving the tools off that page :-). But now it becomes a different question of whether those tools should stay there or move to the forum. At a minimum I think tools like Penny and Data-Kitchen should be on the site and possibly others. I would definitely be in favor of keeping the libraries on the site. This might require some work in reviewing/evaluating, but I think it's really critical that we let people know what libraries are available. If we move toward a formal review process I am more than glad to help but can not commit to doing it by myself.

Recently there have been Perl and Rust libraries submitted. These are both very minimal libraries but I feel they should be included anyway to encourage development in those langauges.

jeff-zucker avatar Feb 27 '21 17:02 jeff-zucker

Is there any progress on this? I've seen mentions of Penny in other projects (e.g. https://github.com/solid/community-server/discussions/894) but it is not mentioned in the Solid Apps list. As new user of Solid I just need to be lucky to read all pages and all discussions of all projects to find my way.

phochste avatar Oct 05 '21 05:10 phochste

@phochste The reason for that is probably because Penny is a developer-oriented tool, i.e. it's not targeted at end users and is probably not too useful to them. (Although it seems there was a proposal to add it in #600.)

Vinnl avatar Oct 05 '21 08:10 Vinnl

The tools and libraries page is at https://solidproject.org/developers/tools/. We should not duplicate it in the forum's app section, but perhaps a link to it there would be appropriate.

jeff-zucker avatar Oct 05 '21 16:10 jeff-zucker