Hello, Am 09.10.2011 17:58, schrieb Alexander Lesle: > Hello Josef 'Jeff' Sipek and List, > > On Oktober, 09 2011, 16:39 <Josef 'Jeff' Sipek> wrote in [1]: > >> On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 04:20:50PM +0200, Alexander Lesle wrote: >>> my opinion is that when we want to get openindiana popular that we >>> need first a good documentation. Not only a good documentation for >>> geeks but rather also for endusers. >> I see no reason why the two projects can't happen at the same time. Writing >> good documentation takes time (especially if it is multilingual). It would >> be silly to postpone everything else just to have documentation first. > When you understand my statement wrong then is it because my english > is not very well. IMHO we need docu, forum und mail-list and all can > benefit from each other. > >>> Look at Ubuntu for the last 3 years. In the meantime they had a good >>> documentation and a active community where you get help when you have >>> problems. And they offered it in several languages because not >>> everyone understand English so good that he understand the man-pages. >> When Ubuntu started off, they "inherited" a lot of good stuff from Debian. >> Perhaps we could use Sun's OpenSolaris documentation as a starting point? >> (Depends on the licensing, of course.) > I think that Oracle is not very amused and they deleted a lot of > informations in the web in the last months. > Lets us see what changes on opensolaris are done at maintenance this > weekend.
the documentation was under Public Documentation Licence, but the page of opensolaris is temporary not available. How i read the Licence it is no problem to use the existing documentation and extend it. Of course we have to remove all trademarks of Oracle first. > >>> The openindiana wiki is outdated and confused, so I play in the last >>> two weeks with www.dokuwiki.org. It can be set multilingual but my >>> knowledge about openindiana is "half-depth" because I play with it >>> until one year. >> The wiki software itself is fine. It's the content that is lacking. > That's right. Feel free to contribute. > >>> When we find enough engaged guys who want to help to bring up a >>> multilanguage documentation I will have a look for some webspaces. >> I think, and I'm no expert, that the first step should be to have >> decent documentation in *one* language and then go on a translation rampage. >> Regardless, we need documentation. > Jep. > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
