Re: How about COMEDI wiki?

Good idea! (I think)

I don't think it's that difficult to set op a wiki server if you already
have a web-server :) 

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:02 +0300, Askar Ibragimov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to suggest to have a wiki on COMEDI. Then various people
> can create and maintain update documentation and COMEDI creators will
> receive a help from the community and just edit if something is
> written wrong by others. Right now, writing the driver for a card, I
> was encountered that even to compile COMEDI with new driver requre to
> read some scattered readme files in source codes, and decompile
> several drivers in order to understand what's going on. The COMEDI of
> course is non-commercial project so it is very understandable that
> it's not coming with polished documentation. However, in my humble
> opinion the project will only benefit from good and updated
> knowledgebase. This mailing list is not too usable as all emails
> disappear in threads and there is no reliable and structurized way of
> browse messages. So far, COMEDI is unique, but if some other similar
> project with better documentation would appear, it may loss its
> position. For example, Advantech now do not anymore makes comedi
> drivers, but writes propietary Linux drivers for its cards. 
> 
> I myself plan to make a short step-by-step manual how I modified my
> driver :)
> 
> Best regards, Askar

Received on 2007-10-10Z10:40:43