Documentation isues

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sat Mar 3 06:48:22 PST 2007


On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 03:33:15PM +0100, robome at myway.de wrote:
> as a user of the X.org X server I'd like to look up some documentation about it.
> E.g. with availability of the 7.2 the release notes.
> 
> Now what: The frontpage on http://www.x.org/ says "X.Org community releases
> X11R7.2" the headline link to "Current Release" leads to
> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/X11R71Release ...
> 
> Ok another try via ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/current, but that's only a link to
> ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.1 while ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.2/ contains nothing. :-((
> 
> And general infos like which are the latest Radeon drivers, what's their changes
> history and which OpenGL functions does it provide? Nothing that's linked on the
> front page. And what can be found via search function in the Wiki doesn't
> contain all of the above.
> 
> Please invest some more energy in documentation.

With the resources we have, investing energy in documentation means some
development would stop.  We don't have enough people to develop and
document.  Sad but true.
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