[CMake] cmake community site

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 03 March 2008, Matt Williams wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I've got a proposal for you all which I've been thinking about for a while.
> Since cmake is now getting more and more widely spread, being used by
> people for both small, casual projects as well as monolithic projects (e.g.
> KDE) it seems like cmake itself, as well as the users of it could benefit
> from a community site of sorts. In my experience with opensource projects,
> one of the largest factors in how large a mindshare it has as well as how
> long it manages to hold on to that mind share is how strong a community it
> has.
>
> Now, this list is great; both for quick support as well as a direct line to
> the developers (kudos to Brad, Bill and co. for that) and the wiki is good
> for code snippets and extra documentation but I feel it could be better.
>
> I'm looking to see what you guys on this list think about me starting up
> a 'cmake community' site, possibly featuring the following:
>  - News about releases
>  - News about projects' success stories etc.
>  - Simple beginner's tutorials
>  - Tutorials about more specific tasks e.g. platform specific things (even
>    when this isn't necessarily cmake specific)
>  - A repository of Find*.cmake files including the ability to provide
> feedback to the module writer, such as improvements/patches
>  - A repository of extra macros providing the same as the Find*.cmake
>    repository
>  - Discussion forums
>
> So, what do you guys think? Is this sort of site wanted/needed? Is this

I'd say not yet. For now it would probably be better to just help working on 
the wiki, there you can also write tutorials etc.
A solution for additional cmake modules is needed.
There is also a cmake site at google

Alex