Tighter FsLab integration

[kMutagene]

Hi there @AndrewIOM, thank you very much for modernizing this library, it is much appreciated!

I am part of the initiative to modernize the overall FsLab org, especially focusing on community building besides the usual maintenance/development stuff. For a general intro on FsLab you can for example have a look at this section from my recent talk at dotnet conf

I have several questions regarding this repo:

• Would you like to have a channel for the RProvider on the FsLab discord server? It has proven a great way for facilitating both community interaction and working together with other maintainers/constributors. We could add a direct invite link that sends to that channel to the readme (see for example the readme of Plotly.NET)
• As you moved the doc generation to fsdocs anyways, are you interested in using the fslab theme for the docs? Here is an example what it looks like for Plotly.Net
• I would love to add this package to the endorsed packages list on https://fslab.org/packages. If that is okay for you, is there a small concise snippet you would recommend to put there?

Of course, i would assist with any of this should you agree ;)

Thanks again for your work!

[AndrewIOM]

Hi @kMutagene and thanks for contacting - exciting to see FsLab moving forward.

Definately I would like to see RProvider included in FsLab. We are currently working on getting the new .net 5 nuget release out - I think as soon as this is up (hopefully in the next few days) it would be a good time to add RProvider to the endorsed packages list (but not before).

• Endorsed packages: we can submit a PR to the fslab website repo with the details once the .net 5 nuget package is out - would this be OK from your side?
• It makes sense to share templates for fsdocs. I will look into using your FsLab template - or a PR including this would be great.
• Not sure about Discord (not something I have ever used!). As it sounds like this would be something of interest to the community, I agree that we should try this out and add it to RProvider readme as in your other projects.

I'm looking forward to collaborating further!

[kMutagene]

• Endorsed packages: we can submit a PR to the fslab website repo with the details once the .net 5 nuget package is out - would this be OK from your side?

Absolutely. For future reference, the process is documented in a little bit more detail here, or an example file here

• It makes sense to share templates for fsdocs. I will look into using your FsLab template - or a PR including this would be great.

You can ping me when the package is ready and i'll file a PR for the docs ;)

• Not sure about Discord (not something I have ever used!). As it sounds like this would be something of interest to the community, I agree that we should try this out and add it to RProvider readme as in your other projects.

Same for me, it was a new experience but really helped getting in touch with people.

[AndrewIOM]

Hi @kMutagene I've just released a stable 2.0.1 release for RProvider. When you have time for the PR on the docs theme / discord, we're ready to go on the FsLab integration.

[kMutagene]

Absolutely awesome @AndrewIOM ! I'll add the channel to discord right now and look into porting the docs soon.

[AndrewIOM]

Now that #248 is complete, I think thats the three key bits of FsLab integration implemented. Thanks for working on this @kMutagene - it's looking great. Will close this issue for now.