Re: [avr-gcc-list] gcc-avr/avr-libc wiki

[Clemens Koller]

Hello, Community!

Graham Davies schrieb:
> David McNab write (in part):
>
> > If everyone reading this message can stick up just one page ...
> > Let's get some really great and complete gcc-avr/avr-libc doco.
>
> I'm just wondering:
>
> Who hosts avrwiki?  How do we know it won't suddenly go away?  I've had 
> a bad experience working on a Toyota Prius site that was hacked and then 
> disappeared taking hundreds of hours of community work along with it.  
> How can we be sure that work we put into avrwiki will be durable?

I am willing to offer some of my own private root-server space in
germany to the Open Source avr-gcc-development.
It's a pretty fast Athlon XP 2200+ machine with an extra 300GB Harddisk.
I use that with compile-tests and as a repository for my work.

Some restrictions apply:
- The project has to be fully Open Source/Open Documentation/Free
for everybody.
- Traffic max. 50GB/month.
Let me know, if you want to backup/mirror/publish something
there.

> Who will organize, scrub and correct minor errors?  Who will set policy 
> (for example, decide what is an error and what isn't?  The AVR GCC page, 
> for example, calls avr-gcc "gcc-avr", which will mess up searches.  What 
> exactly is "doco"?  Is the spelling, capitalization and punctuation 
> currently on this site acceptable?

I vote against these fancy new word creations in that context.

> I suppose my concern is that since the documentation we're talking about 
> does exist, is maintained and you can find it with reasonable effort, 
> wouldn't putting up a second source of information oblige us to adhere 
> to at least the same standard of quality as the originals?  If we don't, 
> we'll be doing the community a disservice by hiding the real 
> documentation behind something of lower quality.

ACK.

Best greets,
--
Clemens Koller
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