[mythtv] Development task list:

[Kevin Kuphal]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>>>On a side note, I really would like to contribute more to the
>>>documentation/wiki but it begs for a more official structure as a
>>>guideline to start and I'm afraid that just moving the .info stuff
>>>to .org lacks the adequate skeleton to make the information flow
>>>properly and be more useful to people.  Since it started on the
>>>side, it developed a somewhat halting flow for the information
>>>organization...
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>What would be ideal for you, then?
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I've used MediaWiki at my workplace as a kind of IT knowledgebase for 
our department.  The first thing I would take advantage of is the 
Categorization features so prominent in WikiPedia, for example.  We use 
a top level category called "Knowledge Base".  All other categories are 
made members of this category which makes an auto-genearated index of 
files.  This helps in finding general sections of information.  Pages 
are then put into sub-categories and auto-indexed that way as well.

I think for this project, simple categories such as "How-tos", 
"Hardware", "Architecture", and the like would be most useful.  Since 
categories can be user created, someone to keep a watchful eye on them 
would be beneficial to keep things from branching out too far in too 
many directions.   These sections could have more specific 
sub-categories such as "Capture Cards" for "Hardware", etc. and pages 
can live in multiple categories such as "Capture Cards", "IVTV", and 
"Hauppauge", and "Troubleshooting" for a page on troubleshooting a PVR-150.

We keep our main page simple linking to a few categories of importance 
using large buttons in the style of the site with some informative text 
in a 2 column table fo layout leaving most of the navigation to 
self-create using the categories and depending on the full-text search 
to aid users.

I would be very happy to help out with this in any way possible as the 
effort seems to the outside eye to have stalled a bit.  I very much 
enjoy this project and enjoy my work with our workplace wiki and think 
that it could be helpful here as wel..

Kevin