Fil,

Thank you for reviewing my changes. I think your edit re: GPU
rendering is an improvement (and expresses a sentiment that I
share).

I will send over some of my thoughts about the wiki.

Mark

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 2:12 PM, Fil <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, Mark.
>
> On 25/07/19 08:13, markmatney wrote:
>
> > Denis,
> > Thanks for the edit permission. I went ahead and made those changes I 
> > proposed yesterday. "ReplicantInstallation" in particular got a pretty 
> > major overhaul.
>
> I have reviewed all of your edits and I must say that you have actually
> made a great job!
> Thank you for your precious contribution.
> I especially liked the truly-wiki-style cross-linking that you have put
> in place and the dedicated page about the definition of "recovery".
>
> Effectively, I found a net improvement in readability in the pages you
> edited. So, once again, thank you... and kudos!
>
> I only felt like making a minor adjustment to the Graphics page (see the
> diff [1]), and I'd like some feedback from you and from other members.
> I essentially reworded the sentence about the missing GPU support, to
> emphasize the fact that free-software replacements are simply not yet
> available, but may very well become available in the future.
>
> > I have some opinions on further improvements, and am interested in 
> > contributing to that effort, but as I'm aware that many of you will be 
> > convening this weekend perhaps the timing isn't good for making major 
> > structural changes. I would join you all in Paris but I'm at UTC-0700. :-)
>
> Further contribution will be very welcome :-)
>
> > In my opinion, the main area in need of improvement is the main page. For a 
> > new user who is considering installing Replicant, there is too much 
> > information there. It is not immediately clear where to start, and a new 
> > user currently has to sift through too many words in order to find out. I 
> > also think most if not all of the top-level sections ("Supported devices", 
> > etc.) would fit better in their own dedicated page, much like the main page 
> > of <wiki.archlinux.org>.
>
> We did discuss the matter during the meeting in Paris, and we also
> deemed some adjustments to be necessary.
> If you have any specific suggestion about it, can you please coordinate
> with me, as I will probably be doing part of the work of synthesizing
> and cleaning up some of the scattered pieces of information.
> In case anybody else reading this message was willing to participate:
> please, do no hesitate to propose your point of view.
>
> Thank you again for contributing to the project!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fil
>
> [1] https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Graphics/11/diff
>
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