David Farning wrote:
> Nice, it looks like the new document is heading the right way.  But I
> do belive that you guys have been working with routers too long if you
> think a newbies can figure out how to mess with config files;)
OpenWrt is not for newbies (yet?). OpenWrt is mainly a platform for developers
and experienced Linux users.

> Getting started should probably involve telling the user how to
> install an ipkg gui.
That's something for X-Wrt.

> Please take a look at the OpenMoko.org to see how they have
> structured things.  I would be willing to start structuring the
> OpenWrt Wiki in a similar manner and keep it organized.  The end goal
> of writing a Latex doc sounds good.  But not something I am willing to
> commit to yet.
We talked a lot about what to do with the wiki and how to structure our
documentation and decided, that the wiki is not suitable as main source of
documentation. Misinformation gets spread and repeated way too quickly, and
many people tend to assume that everything stated in the wiki is correct.
By keeping the docs in SVN instead, we can use a proper format, which is easy
to update and shuffle around, and we restrict access to developers, who are
supposed to know what they're doing and review changes from other people.

- Felix
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