On Monday 14 July 2003 06:38 pm, Peter \ wrote: > There is a wiki at http://xwin.org:9673/xwin/FrontPage > > Granted, it is not run by the XFree86 people but by xwin.org, a > potentially competing group of people -- who have already showed that they > are dissatisfied with the way XFree86 is run. > > Whether that's a bonus for you or the converse, I don't know :) > > > Referring them to a TWiki page named "BeforePostingYourProblem" could > > lead > > Perhaps we should make such a page on the xwin wiki... >
Yes, I guess part of the idea would be that URL of the wiki (or one particular page), would be what gets put into the right place in X so that, when a problem occurs, they are referred there. > > can convince you that a TWiki is a good idea, someone volunteers a > > hosting site for it and a domain name, I would then look for some help in > > setting it up. > > The xwin wiki is currently zwiki which is not all that nice. Here is a > snippet from the xwin IRC channel at irc.freenode.org a couple of days > ago: > > <keithp> firefly: yeah, wiki markup is a pain. I'm expecting to switch > wiki software in a week or so when I get another host for the xwin.org > content; perhaps we should have a discussion about which wiki software to > use instead of zwiki (which sucks pretty bad) I suspect many people would take exception to TWiki's markup, although I've used several and think TWiki's is reasonable. Any markup has a learning curve. In TWiki (and most other wikis, IIRC) you can get passable results without any markup -- i.e., just enter paragraphs separated by a blank line. So, yes, I would vote for and prefer TWiki, but others will have a preference for whatever wiki they know best. (TWiki does have full version "control", the ability to do some password protection, tables, sketches, etc.) > As a matter of fact I did suggest twiki because it seemed better in many > ways. If you are volunteering to help set it up it would be wonderful :) Volunteering is one thing (no problem) having the expertise to set it up is another -- I'm willing to try to help. > Contact addresses: > > #xwin on irc.freenode.org/irc.freenode.net > http://xwin.org > http://xwin.org:9673/xwin/frontpage > http://xwin.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xwin > > -Peter > > PS: This doesn't change Egbert's other point, that the X server should not > mention an email address but something like an URL, which contains the > frequently asked questions, a searchable archive and only then, buried at > the bottom, a mailing address. (I embellished a bit on what Egbert wrote > but I don't think I'm far off from his intention) I agree 100% -- I'd suggest that URL be a specific page on the TWiki ;-) Randy Kramer (PS: I'll do some browsing around the xwin wiki, and may join the mailing list, but I think the key (as stated somewhere above or in a related post) is, when the Xserver reports an error, direct the user to a URL (like for a wiki) instead of the mailing list.) _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
