>Yes, the concensus was that it would be difficult to host a developer >resource like this with any of the Linux distributions and/or desktop >organizations. However, the distros and desktop organizations have the >content that is needed to make the portal meaningful.
I think the solution to that dilemma is agregation. I can imagine OSDL defining a set of "how-to-questions", upstream technology providers (e.g. gnome, kde and trolltech) providing an answer to those questions based on the use of their technologies, and distributions wanting to ammend some of those answers to take into account distribution specifics. What is needed then is a web-infrastructure to shuffle that information around and allow the various parties to present those bits that are relevant to their audience as an integral part of their own websites without the need to actuallly duplicate creating that information. Think of it as the convergence of wikipedia+docbook+RSS+tagging. You would want to be able to tag information as "only relevant to Gtk+" or "only relevant to KDE 3.1 or older" (and differentiate between "relevant to applications based on KDE 3.1 libraries" and "relevant to applications running under a KDE 3.1 desktop") Cheers, Waldo
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