Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator
Matthew Sackman wrote:
>
> I'd just like to pledge my support for this, and if you need any help then please
> do get in touch!
Thank you for your offer :-)
I opened a sourceforge project: mydebman
I would be glad to see you join :-)
>
> Yes, the database structure must be very very extensible and must be able to
> cope with anything the future will hurl at it!
>
That is why many people have to make there ideas public :-)
> That may well involve an almost electronic-level understanding of the peripheral
> in question, which is not always possible. I think that the greatest problem is
> that people coming from windows no almost nothing about the hardware they have -
> if their motherboard has a sound set built on to it then they will not know the
> chipset (I didn't for a long time ;-). This may become the hampering factor - if
> you have to specify everything (down to design of motherboard, IDE controllers
> etc) then it may become a little too complex.
Well - A database just can go by name and probably you could put
something like a "relation" table in there, thus somebody can say: That
will work like product A. (if he finds it a relation table) otherwise it
has to guess with one of the products of the same producer. But at least
at the beginning I will not include that feature: It can leed to too
many troubles if the database is empty.
> This could be an excellant resource, but it needs a lot of sitting down, and
> thinking and designing to make it as good as it could be.
:-) I hope I see you helping me :-)
>
> > Anyway - just my ramblings :)
> To which I've added!
>
oh yeah - to the project - there is a mailing list:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mydebman-discussion
(mail address of that list: mydebman-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net )
Ciao, Matthias
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