ashark at linuxcomp.ru
2019-Nov-07 01:27 UTC
[syslinux] How to suggest fixes to wiki.syslinux.org ?
By the way, I also had this question. I wanted to add some information that I researched and that is not documented at a wiki page, but I could not do that. I even could not edit a talk page! I have subscribed to this mailing list because of I could not find other communication channel. My opinion is that it is wrong behavior. It breaks openness and looses ability of community improvements of documentation. But if it is done against spam, than probably introduce a capcha or a question like on Arch Linux wiki?
> By the way, I also had this question. > I wanted to add some information that I researched and that is not > documented at a wiki page, but I could not do that. I even could not > edit a talk page! I have subscribed to this mailing list because of I > could not find other communication channel. > > My opinion is that it is wrong behavior. It breaks openness and looses > ability of community improvements of documentation. But if it is done > against spam, than probably introduce a capcha or a question like on > Arch Linux wiki?And such matters are already posted (e.g. reasons for blocking by default, contact info,...) There are more than a hundred wiki pages. Additionally, the official documentation (included in the official distribution archives) is scattered, between plain text files located in several directories, manual documents, and asciidoc files converted to html. That's all official documentation; there are non-official documents and downstream docs/wikis too. It is not uncommon for people to ask for information that is actually already documented somewhere. If there is some info that is not included, the best way to let users and developers know about it is to post it in the mailing list, where it can be eventually discussed and potential improvements to the code / behavior might be triggered too. Having said that, the level of activity for The Syslinux Project is rather (very, very) low, whichever communication channel is used. Regards, Ady.
Frantisek Rysanek
2019-Nov-07 08:01 UTC
[syslinux] How to suggest fixes to wiki.syslinux.org ?
Dear gentlemen, thanks for everybody's polite responses :-) I understand that HPA is a creative guy, with his hands in too many projects to count. And I am amazed at getting a flurry of swift and informative responses from several people on the mailing list, within hours of asking. I wouldn't call this a dead project :-) Allright then, it'll be my pleasure to keep posting to this mailing list. Frank