"What's Next for PlanetMath/Planetary?" Preview

[holtzermann17]

Summary

Lifecycle stage: 1 --proto-- 2 ->- [3]--evolving-- 4 ->- 5 --complete-- 6 ->- 7 --mature-- 8

The main platform (including NNexus, Planetary, etc.) has been doing quite well, but work is going slower now that Joe has submitted his thesis.

Deyan pointed out that the system is not really as easy to install or use as, say, MediaWiki, so a reasonable effort should be put into making a quick-start dev / deployment strategy.

User interface also needs many improvements and a thorough usability review

If people are going to deploy many different instances, it would be great if they could talk to each other. There are a number of strategies we could use for this. Further, it would be useful to be able to easily import/export content from/to other platforms.

In order to progress to stage 4, we need a solid developer group making regular commits. If PlanetMath itself is going to remain relevant, we need to keep it as an integration platform for work.

[holtzermann17]

See MathHubInfo/Legacy-planetary#63, MathHubInfo/Legacy-planetary#381, MathHubInfo/Legacy-planetary#88

There are a lot of other basic usability issues collected in this PM ticket: #5 and these Planetary milestones, which are past due: PlanetMath Community and PlanetMath Community 2.

[dginev]

Being involved in a project that almost entirely has (for now) chosen MediaWiki over Planetary because of its ease of installation, use and stability, I would personally consider this top priority for Planetary adoption ( and the implied new external contributions back to the code base)