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duplicate, mostly outdated documentation is generating a central website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.
Well, unattended ones are prone to doing that. Having multiple unrelated
instances further magnifies this issue. However, in the aforementioned
proposal, I suggested that Dave (and perhaps others? i.e. devs) would help
oversee and/or shape this *single* documentation resource in order to keep
it current and accurate. Hence, IMHO I see this as an all-encompassing
solution.
Best wishes,
Ico