[mythtv-users] Mailing list and a Wiki... and a dessert topping

[Paul Woodward]

I have followed this thread and there are a number of questions outstanding:
1. Isaac: As owner of this project, do you believe it is right that the official
docs should contain information for setting up specific hardware for use on a
myth box. For example 'I have sound card X, here are my alsa configs, mplayer
configs etc, here are the configurations I set to get myth working'.

2. If the answer to the above is yes, then fine, lets make efforts to collect
such information and contribute it to to the docs maintainer. If no we have an
obvious need for a myth Wiki.

Another issue apparent to me is the need for collaborative effort to create the
above information:
In my case I have an M-Audio Revolution sound card. These are not the easiest of
beasts to get working. I spent many hours trawling the web picking up disparate
tips to get it working (substancially from the ALSA wiki and mailing list). I
would like to share the information I collected to get my myth setup working. I
don't believe my setup is perfect, and as such it is not something I think
should be contributed to the official docs yet. However the information I have
could be contributed to a Wiki saving other poeple the time and trouble I had
in getting it to work. Anyone else with the same setup then has the opportunity
to improve my configuration. When satisfied this can then be promoted to the
official docs as the accepted solution.

Paul

Quoting Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie>:

> On Monday 17 May 2004 19:25, Bill Chmura wrote:
> > I say let there be the existing mailing lists, the official docs and a
> > wiki. Wikis are good to putting in new docs, etc...  The mailing list is
> > good for discussions and having gossamer is good for searching.
> >
> > I don't like the idea of a forum on top of this... I think maybe splitting
> > the mailing lists into a myth-users and myth-hardware would cut down on
> > some of the traffic that maybe making a forum attractive to some.
> >
> > So if I had a vote, I would say +1 for a wiki (for user contributed
> > documentation and walk throughs and such).  -1 for a forum or other
> > discussion based technology.
> >
> > Aside from that, I think this chain has reached the point where no one is
> > going to convince anyone that they are right or wrong, and since its not
> > going away I am guessing that it will go on forever.  So, to all parties
> > involved, I would say just do it.  If the community is behind you they
> will
> > use it.
> >
> > The internet is a great place
> 
> a suggestion:
> 
> use the wiki as a staging area for docs which will go into the mythtv.org
> docs 
> (assuming that they are accepted)
> 
> ask for volunteers to take topics and trawl through all info sources and add
> 
> this info to the wiki. topics include (but are not limited to):
> 
> architecture
> installation (compiling, installing, configuring)
> tv-out
> distributions (myth and os)
> hardware (cases, cooling, machine, capture card, display card)
> ui
> remote control (lirc, remotes, key bindings)
> themes
> plugins (weather, news, dvd, video, music, browser)
> audio (oss, alsa, sp/dif, routing)
> codecs
> dvd authoring
> transcoding
> 
> sources include:
> 
> offical docs
> mailin list(s) (dev, users, ivtv lists)
> wiki(s)
> 
> what would be really cool is if each volunteer took a particular topic and a
> 
> particular source and trawled through it and added stuff to the wiki; get it
> 
> into a good enough shape and then submitted it to isaac for inclusion in the
> 
> docs.
> 
> an example would be going tthrough the mailing list and gathering all info 
> about tv-out and gathering it into one coherent whole. another example might
> 
> be suitable cases to use when building a machine which has to go beside a
> tv.
> 
> regards
> --
> simon
> 
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