On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 19:36 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> > > Before anyone starts writing new documentation, what is most desperately
> > > needed is for someone to remove all the bad documentation out there (for
> > > example most of the ALSA wiki dealing with .asoundrc files and dmix)
> >
> > Yes, absolutely.
>
> Seems to me that what could solve both the issue of consolidation and of
> duplicate, mostly outdated documentation is generating a central website
> that provides one Wiki page for every pertinent topic, whether that be a
> specific software, system setup topic (i.e. ALSA), and/or
> distribution-specific how-to. The end-users and/or project devs/contributors
> could help generate the material
IMHO wikis are what got us into this mess - there's nothing to stop
users from posting wildly inaccurate information. So you end up with
dozens of users posting .asoundrcs that they don't understand, but
happened to solve (or hide) some problem for them.
Lee
Received on Fri Mar 31 08:15:14 2006
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