burtjr Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 With the buzz of XEN/unRAID it may be time to start up a how to section so items such as Tom's beta 6 guide (will change as we go through the testing process), Grumpy's, and Iconics guides don't get lost in the threads. I thought about this as the Beta 6 page has grown to 32 pages and Tom's install guide would need to be copy and pasted several times as new betas come out. Thoughts? Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 thats what the wiki is for really we just need a couple of volunteers to give up a weekend and copy, paste, format and p[ost link backs to the ported words Quote Link to comment
burtjr Posted February 16, 2014 Author Share Posted February 16, 2014 True, but.......that is where I ultimately see the problem, the wiki's suffer from middle child syndrome "ignored until the data is out of date." I don't see this changing anytime soon as we rely on volunteers to keep them up to date, and that hasn't happened on a consistent basis the 3 years I've been here. Although the wiki's are great the process we have in place is inadequate and we either need to change the way we capture the instructions or change the way the wiki's are updated. The way I see it unless someone is paid to do so they will forever be out f date. Burt Quote Link to comment
nicinabox Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 True, but.......that is where I ultimately see the problem, the wiki's suffer from middle child syndrome "ignored until the data is out of date." I don't see this changing anytime soon as we rely on volunteers to keep them up to date, and that hasn't happened on a consistent basis the 3 years I've been here. Although the wiki's are great the process we have in place is inadequate and we either need to change the way we capture the instructions or change the way the wiki's are updated. The way I see it unless someone is paid to do so they will forever be out f date. Burt This exactly. I'd much rather see Guides that are up to date and easy to maintain. This really feels like an area that Limetech should be responsible for, but ultimately the burden will fall on the community. Quote Link to comment
jumperalex Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 No point in repeating myself so ... http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31758.msg289289#msg289289 and not just my first post but some of the back and forth after. Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Forums are not the place for guides and are lacking in key features for authoring guides.....wikis are designed for this purpose and we have a long out standing task to start moving the existing guides over. All we need is to start a culture change of people wirting in the wiki and linking back or i wonder if there is a forum tag that could show wiki text inline. Quote Link to comment
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