I would say that the best thing to do would be to tie a replacement TOH directly into version control and have supported router models populate directly from there somehow. Maybe something along the lines of how cyanognmod uses their template system http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Template:Device_info would work.
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Pavel Simerda <psime...@redhat.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Manuel Munz" <freif...@somakoma.de> > > To: "OpenWrt Development List" <openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 10:27:49 PM > > Subject: [OpenWrt-Devel] Interest in a openwrt router database to > partially replace TOH? > > > > Hi, > > > > i needed a database to be able to implement a selector where users can > > choose their router model and from that parameters like > > target/subtarget/profile/others are automatically set for the selected > > model. > > I like the idea. But you also need someone to maintain the content. Even > the official TOH is obsolete already (e.g. there's no information about > tp-link 1043nd v2). You'd need a full replacement for the wiki TOH (making > the TOH obsolete once again) as well as an easy way to add loads of > information and comments and people willing to update the data. Or, > alternatively, you could just specify some format bits for the wiki and > feed the database from the wiki. > > > A first demo for this can be seen here (where it says WIP): > > > > http://testing.meshkit.freifunk.net/ > > It looks a little bit too javascripty for me. I would like to be able to > *also* just view the table of hardware like I do in the wiki. > > Cheers, > > Pavel > > > For that reason i started playing with a router database using web2py as > > framework. A somehow working demo version can be found here: > > > > http://meshkit.freifunk.net/routerdb > > > > Login as user openwrt and with password openwrt to be able to edit > > routers (that part is still a bit ugly) and wiki pages (also not as nice > > as other wikis, but its usable). I already implemented a lot of stuff in > > the database schema as you can see here: > > > > http://meshkit.freifunk.net/routerdb/static/images/bg_graph_model.jpg > > > > I also just comitted the code for it: > > https://github.com/mmunz/openwrt-routerdb > > > > This is more than i need for my usecase, but i wanted to experiment what > > is possible. > > > > The question for me is now: Is it worth putting more time > > into this and further improve it? Is there any interest in trying to > > figure out how such a database could be combined with TOH in wiki? > > > > Regards, Manuel > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openwrt-devel mailing list > > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >
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