[Xenomai-help] FAQ

[Xenomai-help] FAQ

[Roderik_Wildenburg]

First of all : Many thanks to Bruno for reconstructing the Xenomai web-site to a Wiki !! Good work !

I would like to make a suggestion to fill the wiki with content.
Wouldn´t a FAQ be a good idea ?
I think about questions like "What is the difference between Xenomai and RTAI ?" (answered by Jan) or "How is IPC between a Xenomai task and a process done ?" (answered by Gilles) "What does the coloumns in /proc/xenomai/stat mean ?" (allready answered ?). 

I never worked activ with a Wiki, therefore I would appreciate, if somebody with the knowledge (probaly Bruno ?) could start this FAQ (I would copy the answers to the questions above, when the FAQ is started).

Perhaps the Gurus could answer questions of more public interest in this FAQ rather than in the mailing list (just giving a link to the FAQ in the mail answer).

What do you think about this suggestion ?

Best regards
Roderik

Re: [Xenomai-help] FAQ

[Jan Kiszka]

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Roderik_Wildenburg@domain.hid wrote:
> First of all : Many thanks to Bruno for reconstructing the Xenomai web-site to a Wiki !! Good work !
> 
> I would like to make a suggestion to fill the wiki with content.
> Wouldn´t a FAQ be a good idea ?
> I think about questions like "What is the difference between Xenomai and RTAI ?" (answered by Jan) or "How is IPC between a Xenomai task and a process done ?" (answered by Gilles) "What does the coloumns in /proc/xenomai/stat mean ?" (allready answered ?). 

... not to forget /proc/xenomai/sched and maybe some other entries.

> 
> I never worked activ with a Wiki, therefore I would appreciate, if somebody with the knowledge (probaly Bruno ?) could start this FAQ (I would copy the answers to the questions above, when the FAQ is started).
> 
> Perhaps the Gurus could answer questions of more public interest in this FAQ rather than in the mailing list (just giving a link to the FAQ in the mail answer).
> 
> What do you think about this suggestion ?

Daniel started such section implicitly yesterday by putting some
questions in the wishlist (http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/TaskMarket).
So this is highly welcome.

I just reordered the main page and sidebar a bit so that you can start
filling a FAQ page: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/FAQs. Daniel, you
are welcome to move your part over as well.

Jan


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RE: [Xenomai-help] FAQ

[Daniel Schnell]

Hi,

jan.kiszka@domain.hid wrote:
> Daniel started such section implicitly yesterday by putting some
> questions in the wishlist
> (http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/TaskMarket).  
> So this is highly welcome.
> 
> I just reordered the main page and sidebar a bit so that you can
> start filling a FAQ page: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/FAQs.
> Daniel, you are welcome to move your part over as well.  


Ahh nice coincidence ! I've thought: now we have a Wiki, why not fill in
something in the wishlist if nobody dared to do before ?

I moved over most entries to the FAQ section. Now the question is:
should the answers be inlined into the FAQ or be linked to somewhere
else ? Should for every FAQ be a mailing list answer which itself be
linked ? I guess mailing lists answers do not really fit into the Wiki
style. Also the answers should be editable.

Is the Wiki somehow backed up just in case somebody insane deletes all
the entries or the server disks die ?

Best regards,

Daniel.

Re: [Xenomai-help] FAQ

[Jan Kiszka]

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Daniel Schnell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> jan.kiszka@domain.hid wrote:
>> Daniel started such section implicitly yesterday by putting some
>> questions in the wishlist
>> (http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/TaskMarket).  
>> So this is highly welcome.
>>
>> I just reordered the main page and sidebar a bit so that you can
>> start filling a FAQ page: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/FAQs.
>> Daniel, you are welcome to move your part over as well.  
> 
> 
> Ahh nice coincidence ! I've thought: now we have a Wiki, why not fill in
> something in the wishlist if nobody dared to do before ?
> 
> I moved over most entries to the FAQ section. Now the question is:
> should the answers be inlined into the FAQ or be linked to somewhere
> else ? Should for every FAQ be a mailing list answer which itself be
> linked ? I guess mailing lists answers do not really fit into the Wiki
> style. Also the answers should be editable.

I would say: let it grow. So far we have a few questions (which will
soon have some more answers) that fit on a single page. Once the page
becomes to long, we can start thinking about splitting things up /
reorganising it. That's so nice about a wiki, it's done quickly.

Regarding mailing list replies: Feel free to put in links of related
replies as a starting point. I would prefer links over copy&pasted texts
here, as mails are often written in a different style than documentation
pages.

> 
> Is the Wiki somehow backed up just in case somebody insane deletes all
> the entries or the server disks die ?

Good question. Bruno, I think I asked something similar before, but I
don't recall any answer ATM. Some spatially separated backup system
would be good for the wiki.

Jan


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[Xenomai-core] Re: [Xenomai-help] FAQ

[Bruno Rouchouse]

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On 11/21/06, Daniel Schnell <daniel.schnell@domain.hid> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> jan.kiszka@domain.hid wrote:
> > Daniel started such section implicitly yesterday by putting some
> > questions in the wishlist
> > (http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/TaskMarket).
> > So this is highly welcome.
> >
> > I just reordered the main page and sidebar a bit so that you can
> > start filling a FAQ page: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/FAQs.
> > Daniel, you are welcome to move your part over as well.
>
>
> Ahh nice coincidence ! I've thought: now we have a Wiki, why not fill in
> something in the wishlist if nobody dared to do before ?
>
> I moved over most entries to the FAQ section. Now the question is:
> should the answers be inlined into the FAQ or be linked to somewhere
> else ? Should for every FAQ be a mailing list answer which itself be
> linked ? I guess mailing lists answers do not really fit into the Wiki
> style. Also the answers should be editable.


Well I guess we could draw inspiration from standard FAQ like the GNU/Linux
FAQ <http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#TOCeveryoneknows> or many
others that are similar. I can try to finalize such a presentation.

Is the Wiki somehow backed up just in case somebody insane deletes all
> the entries or the server disks die ?


Since mediawiki is based on a MySQL database, the history of each document
of the wiki is traced. Moreover I do perform backups regularly although
automatic procedure still needs to be discussed and implemented with the
people hosting our website.


Regards,

Bruno Rouchouse

Best regards,
>
> Daniel.
>
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[Xenomai-core] Re: [Xenomai-help] FAQ

[Jan Kiszka]

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Bruno Rouchouse wrote:
> On 11/21/06, Daniel Schnell <daniel.schnell@domain.hid> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> jan.kiszka@domain.hid wrote:
>> > Daniel started such section implicitly yesterday by putting some
>> > questions in the wishlist
>> > (http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/TaskMarket).
>> > So this is highly welcome.
>> >
>> > I just reordered the main page and sidebar a bit so that you can
>> > start filling a FAQ page: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/FAQs.
>> > Daniel, you are welcome to move your part over as well.
>>
>>
>> Ahh nice coincidence ! I've thought: now we have a Wiki, why not fill in
>> something in the wishlist if nobody dared to do before ?
>>
>> I moved over most entries to the FAQ section. Now the question is:
>> should the answers be inlined into the FAQ or be linked to somewhere
>> else ? Should for every FAQ be a mailing list answer which itself be
>> linked ? I guess mailing lists answers do not really fit into the Wiki
>> style. Also the answers should be editable.
> 
> 
> Well I guess we could draw inspiration from standard FAQ like the GNU/Linux
> FAQ <http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#TOCeveryoneknows> or many
> others that are similar. I can try to finalize such a presentation.

I would already consider the GNU FAQ as too unstructured, i.e. too many
questions in one list.

> 
> Is the Wiki somehow backed up just in case somebody insane deletes all
>> the entries or the server disks die ?
> 
> 
> Since mediawiki is based on a MySQL database, the history of each document
> of the wiki is traced. Moreover I do perform backups regularly although
> automatic procedure still needs to be discussed and implemented with the
> people hosting our website.

Good to hear. :)

Jan


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