wiki pages Smartphone, Hardware, Handheld, Mobile - Re: Debian on smartphones, how to make it happen!
On Mon, 16 May 2011 09:02:46 -0800, peasthope@shaw.ca said:
> Definitely a forward thinking project.
Thanks, Peter. :) (myself being the guy who started this little
Smartphone Debian shindig. ;) )
> Cell capability is not a requirement for Debian and not all handheld
> computers
> have cell capability. Why not amalgamate
> http://wiki.debian.org/Handheld,
> http://wiki.debian.org/Mobile and http://wiki.debian.org/Smartphone?
> Wouldn't efforts be focussed better?
Quick history:
1) after I decided since noone else was doing it, it must be my
responsibility to get the ball rolling. So, I created
wiki.debian.org/Smartphone
to hold info about the project.
2) Then, I went looking for the page in the debian wiki which would
logically link to the Smartphone page.
There were basically 2 possibilities, working forward from the main deb
wiki page:
a) from a "debian subdistros" page, or
b) from the "hardware" page, reasoning someone might think "I have a
smartphone. It is hw. I'll look under hw to see what debian has
going."
3) Basically, after checking a bit, 2b was the easiest to do.
4) But, the hw page had a not-yet-improved flaw: There was no
distinction between "systems" & "components".
The systems: desktop, handheld, laptop, server - what you'd install
debian _on_,
were just alphabetically included in the "components" list.
NOTE: Mobile was not mentioned on the Hardware page.
So, I first separated the list into systems & components section.
Then, I added a link to "Smartphone" from the "Handheld" page.
It was only a week or so later that i noticed that all of Desktop,
Laptop & Server didn't each have their own page of info, they all were
just links to "http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn";. So, that is
a rather less than useful kind of link. Really, the proper way to
handle those is to eliminate those "Hardware" links, & just put all 3 of
those together on that page with a text note to look at the
http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn page.
Only "Handheld" had/has some real content about handhelds, including the
link to Smartphone.
==
So, I'll venture to state "Mobile"'s content should be be properly
integrated into a higher level wiki page, such as "Hardware", in some
way - like, perhaps as a "Mobile" link - though that might be
duplicative.
==
Best wishes to you, Peter, or anyone, if you want to do something to
improve that section of the wiki!
== Join in the Global monthly meetings, via voice, about all Free SW HW & Culture
http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/
Smartphone Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/Smartphone
Reply to: