Wiki/Report of Meeting 2022-02-03

Report on the J wiki meeting of February 3, 2022

Present: Art Anger, John Baker, Will Gajate, Jon Hough, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault

Will reported that the next step on the road to J playground is to develop the front end for the javascript engine that Joe Bogner has provided. Jon and he will work together with a template similar to the one used for BQN https://razetime.github.io/bqn-repl/
Bob ran the first 2 and half minutes of the 'non-math' billboard video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTBBhKCxxoA The 'math' version has been abandoned because it did not present the sort of simplicity that would attract users to the language.
Then the landing page was discussed and Bob showed some of the changes that had been made https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/prototype_landing_page and that the buttons for the different users would be accompanied by a description to provide direction. Devon suggested putting the buttons below the generic description and above the more detailed one. This would allow the detailed description to be lengthened while still keeping the viewers' focus on the buttons.
Then there was a discussion about the ways that transcription errors should be handled in archival documents. It was decided that transcription errors would be corrected, errors in original documents would use errata and out of date documents would be either noted with the version that was operational at the time of publishing or, if still useful at the present time, have an updated version attached so that as much as possible working code would be provided.

Bob Therriault (talk) 06:22, 5 February 2022 (UTC)