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I'd like to change the README.txt file in the QuantLib distribution to point to installation instructions on a wiki, but I'm not sure which wiki to use. wiki.quantlib.org points to a wiki at the GNA site, but it was mentioned that we are trying to move things to the wiki sourceforge site which doesn't seem to be public right now. Alternatively, we can use the wiki pages at wikiversity. I've already started some quantlib pages at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/QuantLib . This would be something to consider because there is already an active community there which can take care of things like anti-vandalism and also it could bootstrap a wider academic community discussing quantitative finance and open source scientific computing. Something else that I'm finding is that a lot of the users of quantlib would like to remain rather low key and the standard authentication mechanism of sending an e-mail back to an account is actually a minor road block to participation. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Wang Ph.D. - [hidden email] http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Roadrunner ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ QuantLib-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/quantlib-users |
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On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 09:23 -0500, Joseph Wang wrote:
> I'd like to change the README.txt file in the QuantLib distribution to point > to installation instructions on a wiki, but I'm not sure which wiki to use. > > wiki.quantlib.org points to a wiki at the GNA site, but it was mentioned that > we are trying to move things to the wiki sourceforge site which doesn't seem > to be public right now. Joe, first of all, apologies for the delay. Ideally, I'd keep both wikis. On the one hand, I'd use the one at SourceForge to provide some kind of QuantLib cookbook, namely, a collection of code snippets showing how to perform common and less common tasks (and to anyone who's listening, drop me a line if you're interested in contributing.) Installation instructions for different platforms would go there as well, at which point we could modify the README. Also, I would keep this wiki not publicly writable: write access would be given freely to those who are willing to contribute. It might be a minor road block; however, the point of such a wiki would not just be to remain spam-free, but that the code snippets actually work. Signing up for contributing is a way to show that one takes responsibility for that. On the other hand, we can also keep the wiki you started. It might be some kind of forum for general quantitative- and numerical-finance discussion. I'm still a bit doubtful about the redundancy with the mailing lists (for instance, I'd prefer technical questions and discussions about the code and design of QuantLib to be on the quantlib-dev mailing list, as the latter is the forum of choice for that) but the tie with Wikiversity might be appealing to the academic community. Speaking of Wikiversity: > I've already > started some quantlib pages at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/QuantLib . I've had a look at the front page. A couple of questions: 1) The "Add your name to QuantLib/Developer pool" link at the top of the page is kind of misleading. We welcome people willing to contribute, but one's chances to do so are not going to increase by getting an account on Wikiversity and adding one's name to a wiki page whose existence the QuantLib administrators were not aware of. 2) in which way exactly has the Globewide Network Academy "committed significant resources to the development of this library"? Later, Luigi -- Barker's Proof: Proofreading is more effective after publication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ QuantLib-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/quantlib-users |
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在 Friday 13 July 2007 10:26:43，Luigi Ballabio 写道：
I've also been slow. I've started working in New York City, and there has been a lot of slowness due to moving up here. In particular, the machine that I was developing QuantLib with is still in Texas, and stopped working. I've waiting for a new desktop to show up here. > Also, I would keep this wiki not publicly writable: write access > would be given freely to those who are willing to contribute. It might > be a minor road block; however, the point of such a wiki would not just > be to remain spam-free, but that the code snippets actually work. > Signing up for contributing is a way to show that one takes > responsibility for that. That makes sense. The wikiversity page was cut and paste from the QuantLib GNA wiki, and alot of it doesn't make any sense. One problem that I've run into wiki's is to have markers that distinguish between "levels of reliability" (i.e. what is a draft and what has been reviewed). Having two wikis (one open and unreliable and the other one closed and reliable) makes sense. > 1) The "Add your name to QuantLib/Developer pool" link at the top of the > page is kind of misleading. We welcome people willing to contribute, but > one's chances to do so are not going to increase by getting an account > on Wikiversity and adding one's name to a wiki page whose existence the > QuantLib administrators were not aware of. I'll change that this evening. > 2) in which way exactly has the Globewide Network Academy "committed > significant resources to the development of this library"? That statement got cut and paste from the GNA wiki, and I'll get rid of it this evening. It sort of made sense when it was on the GNA wiki since hosting a wiki is non-trivial and while the wiki was on a machine that GNA bought and paid for, putting the label there made some sense. Right now, I'm trying (without much success) to fold GNA work into the overall Wikiversity effort, and if wikiversity supports the wiki, that statement doesn't make any sense at all, since part of the purpose of moving things into the wikiversity is so I don't end up spending a lot of time fighting spammers. :-( :-( :-( There is a general problem with open projects that the advantage of wikis is that the barrier to getting something useful done starts low, but as an organization progresses it has more structure and more structure makes it more difficult for newbies to participate. I'm sort of running into that problem with wikiversity since to figure what to do, I'm having to spend time thinking about politics and management, and I'd really like to minimize the time needed to do that. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Wang Ph.D. - [hidden email] Code Janitor - QuantLib http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Roadrunner ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ QuantLib-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/quantlib-users |
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