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alexwallis646:
HI I hope this is the right section to post this idea.
I had an idea for a new website feature, however it is directly related to rockbox so with luck this is the right place.
My idea is as follows.

Now that lua has been introduced as a scripting language for rockbox, why not open a section on the website where people can post lua script files they create for rockbox so that everyone can benefit from them?
This would serve two purposes, firstly it would allow people to share files they have created for rockbox and might give people ideas about possibilities for lua they hadn't considered, it would allow the hole community to benefit.
Secondly, if this feature was put into place it would serve as a kind of ongoing example resource for people wanting to learn lua.
I think also eventually it might be good if this could be expanded so that if a lua file was felt to be particularly useful in rockbox it could be included officially.
Anyway, this is just an idea what do people think?

LambdaCalculus:
We can create a wiki page to post some scripts to. After all, that's what it's there for! ;)

alexwallis646:
A wiki page could be a good idea, however you know how big the wiki is, I think its possible such a page could easily be forgotten about unless perhaps it was given a direct link on the front page.
I was thinking perhaps maybe create an actual website section similar to themes.rockbox.org for script files.

Llorean:
If everything went on the front page, it would be just as big as the wiki.

People searching for lua scripts will just type lua into the search box, and find the page, no matter how big the wiki is. And lua scripts shouldn't need the kind of infrastructure the theme site has. If they end up needing so, it can be expanded later, but for now it really is the ideal job for a wiki page.

Even if it were to gain a site, it would just be one linked to from the "extras" page, definitely not front-page material.

alexwallis646:
OK, that's a fair point.
What do you think about eventually possibly including some files in rockbox?
I have to be honest, maybe i'm just very limited in my thinking, I am not really sure what sort of things you might want to make lua scripts to do, so if people do start posting them I will be very interested to see what kind of things they come up with for it to do.

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