From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Shirkey Subject: Re: ALSA docs Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:40:52 +0900 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3D3A5774.9030107@boosthardware.com> References: <3D383BAA.9050106@boosthardware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:17:46 +0900, > Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >>I'm in the process of reading up about different ways of setting up the >>new alsa docs so that they are in the style of the new website design >>and have the look and feel of current documentation on other websites. >> >>I'm using the online manual for http://www.php.net as the design basis. >> >>Before I spend any more time on coding up a dynamic user >>maintained/contributed site what is the general consensus on allowing >>contribution to the documentation from anybody? >> >>I have an almost fully working setup now which will allow users to >>contribute ideas and helpful hints. The problem I now face is whether or >>not to automate the input or filter it by having it sent to me (or other >>people) so I/we can post it at our discretion. >> >>I note that a lot of sites that seemed to originally have allowed input >>from users to be automatically added to their webpages have decided to >>change their policy to filtering due to spam or misleading information >>being posted. > > > imo, the documents on the "official" web site should be reviewed and > moderated. one reason is to keep the contents technically correct, > and another is to keep the consistency of the page design (and > to avoid possible spam problems as you mentioned above, of course). > > for auto-generated documents, we already have wiki. > isn't it enough? > i've been very impressed by the convenience of wiki. > Yes me too. > > well, if you think it's too much for you to moderate the input from > users, then i don't mind to change this policy. I don't mind being a moderator if people trust my judgement enough. If it becomes a too much work then we can change how it's done. Keep things fluid. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. For the discerning hardware connoisseur Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/guide/ ======================================== ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf