9 Sep
2003
9 Sep
'03
3:31 p.m.
So far it seems like definitive, official, up-to-date documentation is one of
the things that a conventional business structure does a lot better than the
bazar. Surely there must be a business case for computer sound interface
makers to invest something in maintaining useful HOWTOs for their products
used with Linux. Meanwhile, it seems like a WIKI is a good technology for
preserving and making findable the results of problem-solving discussions on
the newsgroup. WIKIs and forums (fora?) have been set up, but draw little
content. Why not?
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 11:51 am, Daniel James wrote:
Are you saying that the "Add comment" button on
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ just dumps the comments into a black
hole? How sad. I do see what claims to be a user comment from as recently as
june 2003 on the Hammerfall DSP page.
As for the matrix itself, I wonder how long it will be before alsa-project
notices that Midiman changed their name to M-Audio years ago. Jeepers!
It looks to me
like a good place to put this info is in the "user
notes" attached to the ALSA sound card matrix:
There is also a WIKI for ALSA soundcard HOWTOs at
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaOpensrcOrg but it looks
to me like it is less active recently.
Both of these are out of date. I tried to submit updates to the ALSA
matrix, but it appears to be unmaintained. The SuSE hardware database
is no better - I was surprised to see this was also out of date,
given that SuSE is offering a commercial distribution based on ALSA.
I'm afraid it doesn't reflect very well on the LAU community that all
these docs are out of date. I know it's a boring job, but it's so
important to have reliable hardware compatibility information. Is
there no way we could combine the best parts of the matrix and the
wiki to make a new, definitive and official document?
Cheers
Daniel