Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-14 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 15.09.2016 um 03:57 schrieb Gregg Levine: > Hello! > Are also migrating off of Source Forge for everything else? > Yes, but that may take some time. Kind regards Jan --

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-14 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Are also migrating off of Source Forge for everything else? - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 14.09.2016 um 21:08 schrieb Johan Ström: >> >> [...] >> > I made a smal

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-14 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 14.09.2016 um 21:08 schrieb Johan Ström: > > [...] > I made a small manpage to markdown converter script. Test manpage at https://github.com/owfs/owfs-doc/wiki/DS18B20 I will test the script it a bit more, wrap it up, then upload the manpages to the wiki automatically. Kind regards J

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-14 Thread Colin Reese
I added some things. I show up as Interface Innovations at the moment. C On 9/14/2016 12:08 PM, Johan Ström wrote: > On 14/09/16 10:02, Jan Kandziora wrote: > >> Am 14.09.2016 um 07:21 schrieb Johan Ström: >>> Colin, Jan, Colin, and everyone else: Besides the above, what do you >>> guys think of

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-14 Thread Johan Ström
On 14/09/16 10:02, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 14.09.2016 um 07:21 schrieb Johan Ström: >> Colin, Jan, Colin, and everyone else: Besides the above, what do you >> guys think of the GitHub wiki? Would it be an acceptable way to go >> forward? It certainly has a few downsides (mainly lack of structuri

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-14 Thread Arne Raaen
As a pedestrian owfs user, I would like to support the proposal that it should be made very clear very early that owserver is the way to go. I used owfs directly for several months before slowly realizing this. Not so unexpected perhaps, the system is after all called "owfs", and "owserver" may so

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-14 Thread Mick Sulley
Yes I would echo Nigel's comments. I don't think there is a perfect solution but what is suggested sounds good to me. Mick On 14/09/16 10:14, Nigel Titley wrote: > > On 14/09/16 09:02, Jan Kandziora wrote: >> Am 14.09.2016 um 07:21 schrieb Johan Ström: >>> Colin, Jan, Colin, and everyone else:

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-14 Thread Nigel Titley
On 14/09/16 09:02, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 14.09.2016 um 07:21 schrieb Johan Ström: >> Colin, Jan, Colin, and everyone else: Besides the above, what do you >> guys think of the GitHub wiki? Would it be an acceptable way to go >> forward? It certainly has a few downsides (mainly lack of structur

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-14 Thread Colin Reese
As long as the word uncouth is used. When it comes to family codes I have an orphaned page here that may be helpful. I'll also be restructuring my site this week. Good timing. https://www.interfaceinnovations.org/onewirefamilycodes.html C > On Sep 14, 2016, at 1:02 AM, Jan Kandziora wrote

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-14 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 14.09.2016 um 07:21 schrieb Johan Ström: > > Colin, Jan, Colin, and everyone else: Besides the above, what do you > guys think of the GitHub wiki? Would it be an acceptable way to go > forward? It certainly has a few downsides (mainly lack of structuring, > image uploads), but it's very easy to

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-13 Thread Johan Ström
I've found one more reason to have a separate owfs-doc repository: images. Since the wiki itself has no (simple) means of hosting images, you have to upload them somewhere else, for example the git repo. Now, the downside is: you cannot have fully public repos.. You would thus have to be given writ

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Mick Sulley
OK the examples look OK, I don't know how to do it but if this is our final solution I will invest the time to find out. On 11/09/16 21:50, Johan Ström wrote: > On 11/09/16 22:39, Mick Sulley wrote: > >> I just added a new page and it seems pretty easy to me to do that, but I >> don't see any wa

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Johan Ström
On 11/09/16 22:39, Mick Sulley wrote: > I just added a new page and it seems pretty easy to me to do that, but I > don't see any way to create a page hierarchy, is that possible? I think > we would need to group information to make it easily accessible. > > btw I think this discussion is a fantas

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Mick Sulley
I just added a new page and it seems pretty easy to me to do that, but I don't see any way to create a page hierarchy, is that possible? I think we would need to group information to make it easily accessible. btw I think this discussion is a fantastic move in the right direction, currently we

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Martin Patzak (GMX)
On 09/11/2016 06:18 PM, Johan Ström wrote: > On 10/09/16 14:02, Jan Kandziora wrote: >> Am 10.09.2016 um 11:22 schrieb Colin Law: >>> Is there really a need for two? Why >>> not just have everything in one? >>> >> Because of access rights. GitHub only allows full developer access to >> anything

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Colin Reese
In this case, owfs and owfs-wiki repos seem to make sense. Would be nice if there were a blacklist feature. > On Sep 11, 2016, at 10:06 AM, Johan Ström wrote: > >> On 11/09/16 18:55, Colin Reese wrote: >> I see. I didn't see there was a restricted access list option for the public >> wiki. >

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Johan Ström
On 11/09/16 18:55, Colin Reese wrote: > I see. I didn't see there was a restricted access list option for the public > wiki. Just to be clear: Each repository can have it's own wiki. A wiki can either be publicly editable ("any github user"), or only editable by repository collaborators ("users

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Colin Reese
I see. I didn't see there was a restricted access list option for the public wiki. > On Sep 11, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Johan Ström wrote: > > If we opt for an "any user" wiki it can be attached to the main repo, yes. > > The only(?) reason for detaching it would be have a > non-publicy-editable,

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Johan Ström
If we opt for an "any user" wiki it can be attached to the main repo, yes. The only(?) reason for detaching it would be have a non-publicy-editable, but with a different access list than the main repo. On 11/09/16 18:39, Colin Reese wrote: > Why can't there be an 'any user' wiki attached to the

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Colin Reese
Why can't there be an 'any user' wiki attached to the real repo? What has detaching the wiki solved? > On Sep 11, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Johan Ström wrote: > >> On 10/09/16 14:02, Jan Kandziora wrote: >>> Am 10.09.2016 um 11:22 schrieb Colin Law: >>> Is there really a need for two? Why >>> not just

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Johan Ström
On 10/09/16 14:02, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 10.09.2016 um 11:22 schrieb Colin Law: >> Is there really a need for two? Why >> not just have everything in one? >> > Because of access rights. GitHub only allows full developer access to > anything or no rights at all. Not Wiki-alone. > > We could set

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Johan Ström
On 10/09/16 14:54, Colin Law wrote: > On 10 September 2016 at 11:52, Johan Ström wrote: >> On 10/09/16 12:13, Colin Law wrote: >>> On 10 September 2016 at 10:21, Johan Ström wrote: ... I suggest the following: a) For public site, use Github Pages with Jekyll. We (the de

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-11 Thread Johan Ström
On 10/09/16 14:23, Colin Law wrote: > On 10 September 2016 at 13:02, Jan Kandziora wrote: >> Am 10.09.2016 um 11:22 schrieb Colin Law: >>> Is there really a need for two? Why >>> not just have everything in one? >>> >> Because of access rights. GitHub only allows full developer access to >> anyth

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Colin Reese
I think a distinctly themed user wiki is probably a good idea. A bunch of the content there will be useful, but not appropriate for docs. Also, other Colin, I can't think of a better way to merge content, e.g. what info I have on the Pi with whatever you're writing, than a wysiwyg editor. C >

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 September 2016 at 11:52, Johan Ström wrote: > On 10/09/16 12:13, Colin Law wrote: >> On 10 September 2016 at 10:21, Johan Ström wrote: >>> ... >>> I suggest the following: >>> >>> a) For public site, use Github Pages with Jekyll. >>> We (the developer community) would use git to push files

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 September 2016 at 13:02, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 10.09.2016 um 11:22 schrieb Colin Law: >> Is there really a need for two? Why >> not just have everything in one? >> > Because of access rights. GitHub only allows full developer access to > anything or no rights at all. Not Wiki-alone. I

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 10.09.2016 um 11:21 schrieb Johan Ström: > > Groff can (or so says google) write HTML files from manpages, so > shouldn't be an issue to automate. > The Groff HTML output is not pretty and it gets mangled again by the wiki importer. We have to check if it is all nice after this. Especially the

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 10.09.2016 um 11:22 schrieb Colin Law: > Is there really a need for two? Why > not just have everything in one? > Because of access rights. GitHub only allows full developer access to anything or no rights at all. Not Wiki-alone. We could settle on having an owfs-doc project with a open wiki

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Johan Ström
On 10/09/16 12:13, Colin Law wrote: > On 10 September 2016 at 10:21, Johan Ström wrote: >> ... >> I suggest the following: >> >> a) For public site, use Github Pages with Jekyll. >> We (the developer community) would use git to push files which are >> rendered & published automatically by github o

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 September 2016 at 10:21, Johan Ström wrote: > ... > I suggest the following: > > a) For public site, use Github Pages with Jekyll. > We (the developer community) would use git to push files which are > rendered & published automatically by github on push. > If someone is more confortable wit

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Johan Ström
On 10/09/16 11:21, Johan Ström wrote: > > On 10/09/16 02:00, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Just as a demo on how Jekyll works: The files pushed to: https://github.com/owfs/owfs.github.io Renders into this: https://owfs.github.io/ So for example, the src of the introduction page looks like this:

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 September 2016 at 01:00, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 08.09.2016 um 22:32 schrieb Johan Ström: >> >> .. what else? >> > First: I'd love to get rid of are these personal blogs who give stray > information bites which are quickly outdated and totally out of control. > This is the source of most m

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Johan Ström
On 10/09/16 02:00, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 08.09.2016 um 22:32 schrieb Johan Ström: >> .. what else? >> > First: I'd love to get rid of are these personal blogs who give stray > information bites which are quickly outdated and totally out of control. > This is the source of most misfortune for

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-09 Thread Colin Reese
Well, I have to say that the site looks outdated and is difficult to navigate. It does not make it easy to get information that appears useful or authoritative. When I was new to owfs, I could not find even the basic information I needed to explain how owfs and owserver interact. The best infor

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-09 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 10.09.2016 um 02:00 schrieb Jan Kandziora: > > This should be seperated from "official" documentation but in a way the > difference is only sublime. > subliminal of course. Kind regards Jan -- __

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-09 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 08.09.2016 um 22:32 schrieb Johan Ström: > > .. what else? > First: I'd love to get rid of are these personal blogs who give stray information bites which are quickly outdated and totally out of control. This is the source of most misfortune for owfs users. I'm pretty sure only 1 of 10 shows up

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-08 Thread Johan Ström
First of, I agree that writing all content in HTML, even if ever so basic HTML, is tedious when I just want to write text. Having to write italic instead of just *italic* does become quite tiresome in the long run.. Also, I don't want to be forced to click buttons to make my text bold, or to w

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-08 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 08.09.2016 um 11:52 schrieb Colin Law: >> >> Face it, simple markup alone will not give you any contributors. Hell, >> non-developer documentation contributors don't want to bother with >> markup at all! > > Wikipedia doesn't seem to have problems getting contributors. > Oh, COME ON. At Wikipe

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-08 Thread Colin Reese
> On Sep 8, 2016, at 2:53 AM, Stefano Miccoli wrote: > > >> On 08 Sep 2016, at 10:20, Jan Kandziora wrote: >> >> Face it, simple markup alone will not give you any contributors. Hell, >> non-developer documentation contributors don't want to bother with >> markup at all! >> >> What we need

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-08 Thread Stefano Miccoli
> On 08 Sep 2016, at 10:20, Jan Kandziora wrote: > > Face it, simple markup alone will not give you any contributors. Hell, > non-developer documentation contributors don't want to bother with > markup at all! > > What we need is an interface that makes it easy for *anyone* to > contribute to t

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 September 2016 at 09:20, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 08.09.2016 um 09:58 schrieb Colin Law: >> On 7 September 2016 at 23:03, Jan Kandziora wrote: >>> ... >>> In reality, we don't need this "simple" markup when all the people who >>> are contributing to the documentation are developers. >> >> N

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-08 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 08.09.2016 um 09:58 schrieb Colin Law: > On 7 September 2016 at 23:03, Jan Kandziora wrote: >> ... >> In reality, we don't need this "simple" markup when all the people who >> are contributing to the documentation are developers. > > Not necessarily true. I have recently been guided on this li

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-08 Thread Colin Law
On 7 September 2016 at 23:03, Jan Kandziora wrote: > ... > In reality, we don't need this "simple" markup when all the people who > are contributing to the documentation are developers. Not necessarily true. I have recently been guided on this list as to how to interface 1-wire devices to a Raspb

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-08 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 08.09.2016 um 08:44 schrieb Matthias Urlichs: > On 08.09.2016 08:29, Johan Ström wrote: >> Regardless of which one we find most >> suiting, I'd say we should keep all info in *one* place > Personally I'd rather use Sphinx or similar. The main reason is that > it's reasonably easy to sustain a co

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-07 Thread Colin Reese
Here is an example of pages made using Sphinx: https://pgm.readthedocs.io/en/develop/ C > On Sep 7, 2016, at 11:29 PM, Johan Ström wrote: > >> On 08/09/16 00:13, Colin Reese wrote: >> What are the cons for a github-hosted wiki again? > Well, my only objection would be that it is a third party,

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-07 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 08.09.2016 08:29, Johan Ström wrote: > Regardless of which one we find most > suiting, I'd say we should keep all info in *one* place Personally I'd rather use Sphinx or similar. The main reason is that it's reasonably easy to sustain a coherent narrative structure, i.e. one could convert the wh

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-07 Thread Johan Ström
On 08/09/16 00:13, Colin Reese wrote: > What are the cons for a github-hosted wiki again? Well, my only objection would be that it is a third party, but since "we" don't really have a proper organization or funding or anything like that which would naturally be able to "run it ourselfs", every solu

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-07 Thread Colin Reese
What are the cons for a github-hosted wiki again? It really seems to make sense to have all of the source and the how-to hosted in one place, in an easy to use and modify format. Admin and source control is easy to use (it is designed for it, after all), managed, and attached to the repo for ow

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-07 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 07.09.2016 um 21:23 schrieb Johan Ström: > > Pro: > - would be able to properly version it in git > - Could integrate with automatic build on push, using pull requests for > contribution etc. > - static is simple > Cons: > - Depending on how it's implemented, it could be trickier to contribute

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-07 Thread Colin Reese
Github + wiki. I can help. I have content (all devices list, easy explanation of owserver/owfs relationship, etc.) that I will gladly contribute. Colin On 9/7/2016 12:23 PM, Johan Ström wrote: > On 07/09/16 10:48, Jan Kandziora wrote: >> Am 07.09.2016 um 07:15 schrieb Johan Ström: >>> How did