One of the things we haven’t spent nearly enough time on yet is documentation.  How do you get started with the build tools?  How do you talk to a back-end server?  These many other questions could be answered by members of the SproutCore community if only there were a centralized place to keep it.

Well now there is with the SproutCore Wiki.  The wiki is editable by anyone with a Github account and I have posted some editorial guidelines to help everyone make sure they use the wiki in a consistent way.

And there’s one other thing…a lot of times users of an open source project like SproutCore would like a way to propose a new feature.  We need a good way to keep track of these proposals and to allow the community to update them as a group.  Wiki’s are well suited for this, so the wiki includes a special section where you can post proposals.

If you have an idea for a new feature or change to the framework you would like to float to the community, here is a great way to get it incorporated:

1. Write up your proposal for a new feature and add it as a page to the wiki.  Describe the motivation for your proposal, describe the API’s etc.
2. Post a message to the Google Group requesting feedback from the community and open a ticket at lighthouse requesting it be added.
3. From here a couple of things could happen.  People might help to improve the idea, or we might all love it so much that we decide to do it.  At this point, the ticket in lighthouse will be used to track its progress as people work on the concept and it eventually gets adopted into the mainline source.

The new wiki is up right now.  If you have been working on a tutorial to share, please add it here.  I’ll link to new tutorials when they are posted from this blog to keep everyone informed.  Thanks everyone for participating, you make SproutCore a great platform to work with.

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