ghalvor...@hushmail.com wrote: > A HOWTO that has been around for a few months is still nice, especially if > the author maintains it so that the flaws and errors are corrected as > people point them out. I am really surprised at how no one really adopts > the crowd-source wiki approach. It seems that everybody wants their > document in a sterile bubble of web space where people can look, but can't > touch.
Reasons why there is no such HOWTO maintained for a long time: People asking for HOWTOs are not capable writing decent HOWTOs. If they went through their own learning curve leading to good working results they usually have no interest to share the insights with others. They simply use free software as free beer. Authors of existing HOWTOs loose interest to spend the time keeping up with current development. (That's understandable given the amount of unpaid time needed to make high-quality docs.) HOWTOs are most times very platform-specific for certain Linux distributions. It's almost impossible to write _short_ installation HOWTOs without depending on platform-specific packages/paths/etc. And my personal experience with platform-neutral HOWTOs is that people are too lazy to e.g. substitute a path name /path/to/file with the real system's path name. Wikis seemed to be a promising solution because several people can join forces but turned out not to fullfil the promises. There are lots of Wikis out there with many links and sub-pages but no real content. …to be continued… Ciao, Michael.
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