Subject: Re: WIKIs for the ports pages on netbsd.org
To: Rubin <rubin@xs4all.nl>
From: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/28/2005 06:29:55
Hi Rubin,

I think wiki's would be more work for the www team to manage.  Wikis
require even more discipline than the model we currently use.  I have
seen too many free software wikis that are difficult to navigate, and
that have redundant or contradictory information.  And I am not even
mentioning the technical side of administering the software itself.

The playstation2 page is minimal and only has information about old
releases.  This would lead me to believe that the port is not active,
and that a recent NetBSD will not be easy to get.  So I would read
the mailing lists to learn more about it before trying it.

Posting your experience is as simple as composing an email to
port-foo@netbsd.org.  The searchable www archives let the world see it
for all time.

Improving a port web page is as simple as composing an email to
www@netbsd.org.  One improvement would be adding links to the mailing
list archives, like other ports do.

Ben