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tindzk / thesaurus

Thesaurus for programmers
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Any interest in resurrecting thesaurus? #1

Open billiegoose opened 8 years ago

billiegoose commented 8 years ago

Hi Tim. I couldn't find a thesaurus for programmers online, so now I'm trying to put one together. I see you were working on such a thesaurus 5 years ago... I'd love to use it as a starting point!

tindzk commented 8 years ago

Great idea! Somehow I lost track of this project, but I would love to continue working on it. We could port the file to Markdown to make it more accessible. I also think that a different license like the Creative Commons may be a better fit.

billiegoose commented 8 years ago

Awesome! I started a project on gitbook because I saw it used on the vue-router documentation and was impressed, but I'll adapt to whatever platform attracts the most collaborators. (I've also been approaching potential collaborators on Twitter!) I think you're right that Creative Commons is a better fit than EUPL. I haven't used it before - mostly I publish code under a BSD/MIT/ISC - I'm thinking CC-BY-4.0 since it's the least restrictive, but I see they have several options to choose from.

billiegoose commented 8 years ago

I just thought of this, but we could also just use the built in Github wiki for this repo, or a README.md file

tindzk commented 8 years ago

Yes, I believe a README.md file should be fine. That way we can take pull requests more easily. I have added you as a collaborator and converted the thesaurus to Markdown. We can reuse this repository if you don't mind.

tindzk commented 8 years ago

Also, are you okay with CC BY-SA 4.0?

billiegoose commented 8 years ago

Awesome! I'll take a closer look at the README.md this evening. We might have to figure out how to spread it across multiple pages even.

If CC BY-SA is good enough for Wikipedia it's good enough for me!

billiegoose commented 8 years ago

Do you care if I edit the master branch directly, or should I use pull requests? How much control over the direction of the project do you want?

tindzk commented 8 years ago

I don't mind if you edit the master branch directly. I can invest a few hours a week. We can create issues to better coordinate changes. What ideas do you have to improve the thesaurus? I like your proposal of splitting the document into multiple pages. The only downside would be that it will be less searchable (although GitHub's search may as well work out fine).

billiegoose commented 8 years ago

Sorry I haven't followed up - my personal life suddenly got even busier which I didn't think was possible! I'll be back to spend time on this project again in a week or two