Hi Tarek, Thomas Endt and others invested a lot of time to implement a structured table of hardware in the OpenWrt wiki, which means that a lot of detail information is accessible in a SQLite3 database file which should make it easy to generate hardware documentation pages with a little script and a few self-join queries.
I also think that such a model would be a viable option for the future: have a structured data entry dialog in the wiki which fills a database, have all the surrounding wiki capabilities for free text information and use the resulting database backend data to provide other, non-wiki services like a vendor/model search to to download link redirection. Imho a well maintained hardware database is a very important topic for LEDE, OpenWrt and other associated projects but we need to find a sane middle ground that does not upset too many potential contributors but still yields a reasonable data quality... On a related note I wonder if anyone ever thought about joining forces with WikiDevi? It seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do but I recall that the site operators are rather hard to contact. Just my two cents :) Regards, Jo _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
