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Shake build system
http://shakebuild.com
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Add a wikipedia entry #145

Open ndmitchell opened 10 years ago

ndmitchell commented 10 years ago

From the comments here: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/shake-as-dependency-library.html:

Boris says: Do you plan on promoting Shake? It is hard to persuade people to consider it when there is even no page on Wikipedia and it is not clear how many projects use it.

Neil says: I do want to promote it. What are the notability requirements to giving it a Wikipedia page? I'm very happy to help with the content, especially if someone who knows more about Wikipedia rules can help guide me. I know many companies using Shake, but only a few have openly declared so - I'll try and persuade some more.

Boris says: I think it should have references to several articles and pages preferably written by someone else (no original research). A while ago I added a link to Shake Github on a page "List of build automation software" but it was removed with commentary that the link was unhelpful.

Neil says: As the author of most material on Shake, it sounds like it would be necessary for someone else to write the page? I'd be more than happy to supply any material, answer any questions, write blog posts covering anything that was ambiguous, proof read etc. There is plenty of content floating around, such as the ICFP paper (http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/downloads/paper-shake_before_building-10_sep_2012.pdf) and user manual (https://github.com/ndmitchell/shake/blob/master/docs/Manual.md#readme).

Neil says: Certainly there are build systems on Wikipedia that look a lot less popular than Shake (e.g. Maak) or where very little is known about them (e.g. MPW Make). I notice currently Shake is on the list of build automation software, but with no page behind it.

ndmitchell commented 10 years ago

I suspect this was a conversation with @lykahb

ghost commented 10 years ago

Don't write a wikipedia article. Expect that others do if your software is enough relevant. This is how wikipedia works. The auto-promotion is considered as spam. Promote by other ways: if you are part of haskell community, promote in that.

refi64 commented 10 years ago

Unfortunately, Shake (software) is already taken by an Apple program.

ghost commented 10 years ago

There is a link here

ndmitchell commented 10 years ago

Wikipedia has quite an extensive list of build software, but misses both Shake and Ninja, both of which are far more common than some of the entries they do include. In particular, several people have added Shake to this page with a dangling "not there" page several times, so it should be there fore completness. That said, I've marked this bug "help required", and leave it for someone else to actually add if they consider it worthwhile.