Hi all,

I have been following the progress on Bering-uClibc4 with some interest.
Kudos to Andrew and the team for what has been achieved so far!
It seems that we are close to having a stable v4 platform.
For me a 2.6 Kernel, Shorewall 4.x and excellent IPv6 support are all
important, and the extra size is not a big problem.

We will need some new user (and developer?) documentation for
Bering-uClibc4, at least to reflect the differences from v3 and
preferably to improve on what we have already. I would like to volunteer
to help with this.

At the moment our master documentation source is maintained in DocBook
format and converted to HTML for on-line viewing. Personally I like
DocBook and the ability to convert to HTML, ASCII, PDF etc. from one
master source, but not everyone is familiar with the DocBook markup
syntax. Many other projects have switched across to Wikis for their
documentation - for example see http://www.mythtv.org/wiki - so maybe we
should consider that? SourceForge can provide MediaWiki as one of their
"Hosted Apps". Team members might be more inclined to contribute or
correct documents if the process is easier, and MediaWiki markup is
widely used and not hard to learn.
Then again, maybe we should stick with DocBook?

What about the structure of the documentation? Today we have an
Installation Guide, a User Guide and a Developer Guide. I think that the
Developer Guide should definitely be separate but to me the boundary
between the Installation and User Guides is less clear - should they be
combined?

What other improvements should we aim for?


davidMbrooke


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