On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 14:53 +0000, John Carr wrote:

> > The ideal way i think is to have a small team, of 2 or 3 individuals
> > working on the documentation, a small team working closely together on
> > this should be able to bring the documentation up to date in no time,
> > even a one man team should be able to do it in little time.
> 
> The documentation would have probably been written by now if someone
> would have replied to my proposed structure.
> 
> My feeling was that myself and Jonnylamb should make the initial pass.
> Mainly to get the structure right. We are also keen to moderate the
> new wiki as the old one has errors... And looking at the "resources"
> on ubuntuforums.org we are keen not to have just anyone writing things
> on there - the "help" is often dangerous or just plain wrong.

I'll see if i can digg up that post of yours, it was prior to my arrival
on the ML.

> > I like the HAL idea alot, but i don't know if HAL reacts to eg a
> > bluetooth device connecting to the PC
> 
> There is a project underway somewhere to take care of that. "Not yet"
> would be the response.

Cool.

> > > Have been in talks with Ubuntu (wrt Conduit and sync that "just works"
> > > - you plug it in and it says "where sync to.. k thx bye") and its
> > > likely that we'll see some support into pulling the latest and
> > > greatest into the next release (probably more in terms of acceptance
> > > rather than actual man hours)...
> >
> > I wrote that initial draft, conduit seems like an excellent 'glue' to
> > tie synce and eg gnokii together.
> 
> Tis great to here acceptance (wrt conduit). Its taken a lot to get so
> far, and some peoples attitudes just make you want to give in.

Conduit is shaping up really nicely, definatly a project that's on my
radar ;)

> > > There is no "modern" way to sync 2003 devices. You seem to have to use
> > > ancient programs like a pre-opensync version of multisync. About 1 in
> > > 5 #synce requests is WM2003 related... That was a guess. Enough for it
> > > to bother me that we don't offer support any more :P
> >
> > You want to drop WM2003?
> 
> Hope my reply got through! No, my desire was that jagow might be able
> to resurrect the RRA stuff inside sync-engine.

Yaay for Jagow! ^^

> > > I presume vdcccm won't support WM6? It also doesn't work with
> > > sync-engine. Unfortunately dropping it hurts KDE users, who often ask
> > > about RAKI. I have no idea what exactly that is, but seems not to work
> > > with odccm. Yet. I am strongly in favor of having just one *dccm.
> > > Either RAKI support in odccm or another standalone proggy, or vdccm
> > > needs to be extended for WM6 and needs to be made to work with
> > > sync-engine?
> >
> > vdccm also works with the ancient multisync for wm2003 devices
> 
> With the work that jagow and mark are doing that won't matter - we can
> have a nice working and modern opensync/sync-engine/odccm. Really
> don't want to have to figure out and document years old releases of
> things :-)

So, no legacy section in the docs then? ;)


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