13 Aug
2004
13 Aug
'04
8:59 a.m.
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:13:02 -0400
Dave Phillips <dlphilp(a)bright.net> wrote:
Linux Sound HOWTO July 2001
ALSA Sound mini-HOWTO November 1999
Linux MIDI HOWTO May 2002
Linux MP3 HOWTO December 2001
Worse, the LDP's own documentation refers back to these out-of-date
pieces, making sure that readers continue to be misinformed. I mean no
critique of the excellent LPD, but it seems to me that as a community
we have an obligation to correct this situation. For all the talk
about improving documentation, here's a chance for anyone to get
directly involved. The format for these HOWTOs is simple and already
laid out: what's needed is currency, someone to correct and update the
basic sound & music oriented HOWTOs. Otherwise it might be better if
we asked the LDP to remove the docs in order to mitigate confusion.
I'm a big fan of wikis. They make it so easy for the user to contribute
documentation. Have a look at alsa.opensrc.org. It surpasses the
official alsa site in many places wrt the available
information/documentation. And if it didn't it were a great addition
anyways.
So while i'm not saying that every open source project should use a wiki
for their primary documentation site, they should definetly think about
using a wiki as secondary more uptodate user contributed documentation
source..
With some effort the rather wild and often unstructured collection of
information that a wiki is can be refactored and flow back into the main
doc.
My suggestion would be: Transfer the above listed HOWTO's into wiki's
and see what happens :)
Flo
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