Re: ALSA docs

[Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@boosthardware.com>]

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.


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