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

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>]

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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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