Nils and I created the muskoka because we wanted a convenient place for engineers inside of Sun to dump technical content that would be provided as-is... non-collaborative, static content, in other words, which is just being opened up without being polished, and probably not useful to many people (but extremely valuable to a few, such as hardware specs).
Unfortunately, I had little luck figuring out how to release a bunch of SPARC documentation I wanted to put out there which would be useful to folks porting alternate OSes to Sun platforms. I suspect a lot of other docs fall in a gray area as well since they are potentially encumbered with patents. Given that the flow of documents has been, uh, slow.. err, manageable -- yeah, that's the right word :) -- the whole idea of having it as a separate project area doesn't seem overly exciting anymore. It could probably be folded into a new doc community page, eliminating any potential source of confusion; the content project is really a real, active project. - Eric ----- Original Message ---- From: Ben Rockwood <[email protected]> To: michelle olson <michelle.olson at sun.com> Cc: muskoka-discuss at opensolaris.org; docs-discuss at opensolaris.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:15:44 AM Subject: Re: [docs-discuss] Project Muskoka Redefinition Thats better, I would add an additional line pointing new collaborative content creation to OS Content. My chief concern is to avoid confusion between Content and Muskoka which look redundant currently. benr. michelle olson wrote: > Hi Ceri and Ben, > > Here is the project description from the projects page: > > Muskoka - The project provides a low-overhead centralized repository > for posting or archiving technical content on OpenSolaris.org which > does not have a logical home within any existing project or community > space. All OpenSolaris contributors are welcome to join in and create > their own pages; all that is required is an email request to the > discussion list. > > Is the above better? Ben, when we talked, I described the current > state of the project as one that houses content we're not > collaborating on. But, that could certainly change in the future and I > wouldn't want to limit that possibility in the future. Content > project is more like technical articles while Muskoka is more like > whitepapers. Not sure if any of this helps, let me know what you think. > > -Michelle > > > Ceri Davies wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:05:14PM -0800, Ben Rockwood wrote: >> >>> I think some content needs to be re-written on the Muskoka project page >>> (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/muskoka/). Based on my >>> discussion with Michelle the title "OpenSolaris Project: Muskoka: An >>> open repository for OpenSolaris technical content", and the sole >>> description are misleading: "Anyone is welcome to post content here, >>> provided it is technical in nature and is relevant to the OpenSolaris >>> community. Inquire on muskoka-discuss >>> <mailto:muskoka%20dash%20discuss%20at%20opensolaris%20dot%20org>." >>> >>> Rather the title can stay, but the description on that page should be >>> closer too: >>> >>> "Project Muskoka provides an open archive for non-collaborative >>> technical content that is intended for use and review but no longer in >>> an evolving state, for any of a variety of reasons. Community members >>> possessing such content are encouraged to post it here so that it may >>> long endure. For additional information please inquire on >>> [muskoka-discuss]." >>> >> >> In plain English, does this mean that is I have, say, a presentation on >> resource control that it would be the target type of content? I still >> can't really parse the above. >> >> Ceri >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> docs-discuss mailing list >> docs-discuss at opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ docs-discuss mailing list docs-discuss at opensolaris.org ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
