helping organize x.org documentation

[Cody Maloney]

For a somewhat organized collection so far there's also:
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/index.html

Cody

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tiago Vignatti
<tiago.vignatti at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:18:57PM +0100, ext Matt Dew wrote:
>>   I want to help organize the X.org documentation.   Is anyone
>> working on this?  I'm looking for some direction  as to where to start,
>> who to ask, who to help, what to do, where to go, etc.
>>
>
> Indeed, X documentation is sparse everywhere.
>
> We've been trying to collect some information in our wiki page [0]. But mostly
> there are related with development [1]. Wikipedia's articles are very nice
> either [2] (maybe these pages are overlapping something though). DRI guys have
> done a better job and organized some docs [3]. There's also some documentation
> in our repositories [4]. Besides this all, there's some sparse papers on the
> Web, such X protocol, keithp's, jim gettys, others.
>
> Therefore, if you want to help, I'd suggest you to start collect them all,
> set up a wiki page at wiki.x.org, and let it with a nice presentation to
> people start to in fact use such page (yes it's important!).
>
>
> Thanks for worrying,
>
> [0] http://wiki.x.org
> [1] http://wiki.x.org/wiki/DeveloperStart
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_window_system,
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System_core_protocol,
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System_protocols_and_architecture
> [3] http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation
> [4] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/doc
>    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/doc
>    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/doc/xorg-sgml-doctools/
>    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/doc/xorg-docs/
>
>                            Tiago
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