[Xorg] Projects suggestions (fwd)
Ely Levy
elylevy-xserver at cs.huji.ac.il
Fri Jun 18 09:04:33 PDT 2004
> Ely Levy wrote:
> > 1)Doc project
> > Creating and maintaining docs, translating docs to diffrent langauges
> > Making howtos and newbie guides (like a newbie guy for X configuration
> > could be highly helpfull). helping in ordering the wiki and faqs so
> > people could find help solving their problems.
>
> The first step, which has been discussed elsewhere, is getting all the docs
> translated to a common format that can be edited by free software tools,
> such as DocBook XML, instead of the multitude of formats currently used,
> including some propreitary ones like FrameMaker. ESR's doclifter tool has
> been proposed as a way to get started, and then get volunteers to proof/polish
> the results.
Yea, it was moire like idea of what the project should be about than
actuall plan, but I agree it's an important thing.
On the other hand writing docs for newbie users is important thing as
well...
> > 2)Forum
> > Yea, a support forum for X, its proven itself to be highly usefull
> > in creating a community in various projects. Users/Developers help each
> > other, and more than a few people find it nicer than mailing lists.
>
> And yet another large group of people find web forums much worse than mailing
> lists. It's a rare website that I can get around to visiting on a regular
> basis - forums are just much harder to follow and participate in than a mailing
> list or newsgroup. Perhaps that's just proof that we should have both (and
> perhaps a gateway between the two) so that users can pick the medium they prefer.
by no means I ment forum should replace the mailing list,
there is space for both, the way I see it they have completly diffrent
job. Maybe forums would compete news groups but I'm not even sure of
that.
Ely
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