Documentation wiki

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:18:06PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Michael T wrote:
> > Whenever I want to do something X related - on the driver side or the 
> > application side - I always find that I need a long time to find all the 
> > documentation needed for the task, and that that documentation often has 
> > gaps or is somewhat dated.  I wanted to suggest that you expand the 
> > documentation section of your wiki somewhat - on the one hand, adding in as 
> > much available documentation as possible that the authors are willing to 
> > licence appropriately for a wiki, and on the other hand, perhaps more 
> > importantly, encouraging users of the documentation to extend and update it 
> > themselves.  This might do a lot to help people developing for X and X.Org, 
> > and even ultimately help you get more code contribution.
> 
> What documentation specifically did you need?
> 
> Are you available to help writing the documentation?
> 
> I am interested in helping with this. Does anyone know if your wiki can be 
> maintained via cvs/svn/git/other? And can I check out the wiki source 
> (source of individual webpages with wiki markup) without manually going to 
> each webpage and choosing edit and then copy-and-paste?

http://www.x.org, but I'm looking at moving this to a git-based wiki.

Cheers,
Daniel
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