Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:44:46 -0500 | From | Dave Neuer <> | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario |
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On 12/7/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > A moinmoin wiki.kernel.org should work fine and it takes 10 minutes to > > set it up. Let's use the community to build this list. Perhaps > > wiki.kernel.org could also be used to document some kernel stuff later > > on. > > the problem with this is that with wiki's you get a sliding scope wrt > criteria; I mean, many people will say nvidia graphics work great with > linux... and the wiki will represent that ;( >
Well, if the USB developers are already keeping a list of "known good/known bad" devices, and the IEEE 1394 people are maintaining such a list, and the ALSA people are maintaining a list, wouldn't it make sense to just have some sort of agregation method to present a centralized front end to the information? A distributed hardware matrix as it were?
Seems wise, in order to avoid the problem that Arjan mentioned, to have developers closest to the drivers to be the primary maintainers of the info. Users are obviously going to be an important source of information, but having random users editing a wiki page with "works great for me," "doesn't work at all for me"-style comments appears less helpful than a matrix maintained w/ input from users (where input from users is primarily though the bug reporting process or something else a little more disciplined than unqualified affirmative or negative blurbs).
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