Re: How about COMEDI wiki?

Hi all,

that's an excellent idea. Dave what do you think? PHPwiki or some python
based stuff on your computer?

/Bernd

On 10/10/2007, Askar Ibragimov <askar.ibragimov_at_gmail.com> 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
>



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