[linux-dvb] Re: wiki?

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 18:30 +0200, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> as you probably all know the linuxtv.org websites are quite out of date 
> and almost nobody of the developers is really willing to keep them 
> up-to-date. So I'd like to open a discussion how this situation may get 
> improved.
> 
> May/should we try to use a wiki instead of the static webpages? This 
> would at least make it easier to keep the supported-cards list and the 
> DVB application link page more up-to-date. If so, which wiki 
> implementation should we prefer? Is anybody of you experienced with 
> this, are there any preferences we should consider?
> 
> Another approach would be to import the web pages into the CVS 
> repository, then at least all developers with CVS accounts could edit 
> the html/xml pages.

I don't necessarily see the two as being mutually exclusive:

     1. A wiki for 'user' supplied documentation, howtos etc, user
        experiences/mini-reviews etc
     2. cvs backed webpages for more 'official' documentation.

On 2: my position is: 'if the developer is responsible enough to write
the driver they are responsible enough to document it as well!'

> what do you think?
> 
> Holger
> 
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