On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> the wiki allows many people to add bits and pieces every once in a
> while, so that the work will be shared and people can just add their
> $.02 without taking all the responsibility and administrivia of
> writing a complete, stand-alone doc.
I wasn't going to bring this up but you did.. What if two
different pages contradict each other? Which one is right? Who owns the
words? What if Mark Rages closes the Wiki and starts selling everyone's
contributions? May I re-publish the information in the Wiki?
Normally, there's a single maintainer who is responsible for the
contents of document. If there is a problem, one can send a bug report to
the maintainer. Also, everything in a document is covered under the same
license. Contributions to the document fall within the same license. How
does this work in a Wiki?
> of course, a shiny docbook manual of 500 pages is so much cooler in
> almost every way, but as long as no one's going to write it, we
> might as well stick to what we have. the rather heavyweight
> alternative you suggest will IMHO pose a considerable "barrier" on
> occasional contributors and will leave one person in charge of a
> huge task.
Your concerns can be addressed through good project management. I
don't see any barrier to the occasional contributor... Just send your
patches as plaintext and someone will review it and add it. No problem.
Look, I know DocBook and have been looking for a way to
contribute. But the sad fact of the matter is that I've been unable to get
the latest 0.9.x and CVS snapshots to build. My experiences with ALSA have
been really frustrating.
> but if you or somebody else here is on first-person terms with tim
> o'reilly, why not getting him to pay somebody to write "ALSA in a
> Nutshell" ? i'll pre-order today. :-D
I think in ORA's "In a Nutshell" series might be trademarked. How
about an ALSA Programmer's Guide that is similar to the OSS Programmer's
Guide? Check out the OSS Programmer's Guide at
http://www.opensound.com/pguide/
-- kevin at kevindumpscore dot com
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