[syslinux] Task wishlist (was Re: SYSLINUX 3.70-pre1: development release)

[Murali (முரளி கணபதி)]

I think, we should all pitch in with the documentation, and get most
things documented. Even if it is not perfect, have some documentation.
Then people will start reading the documentation, fix it / complain.

I will volunteer for the config file and menu systems documentation.

- Murali

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Murali (முரளி கணபதி) wrote:
>
> > How about getting a GSoC'er to implement some feature requests, and
>  > that will give others more time to work on the documentation. I can
>  > add a section for the config file format and the menu systems in the
>  > wiki. As a first pass, copy paste the README files and format them
>  > appropriately.
>  >
>  > Regarding the quality, we could be very selective, and select somebody
>  > only if we think they can help. Otherwise, it would be a waste of our
>  > time and will not give the student a good experience as well.
>
>  For "others" you mean me?  At the moment there isn't really a whole lot
>  of other people contributing; for 3.36 to 3.62-pre16 there are 12
>  commits by other people and 389 commits from me (although I think there
>  is a handful which are miscredited.)
>
>  Now, that obviously doesn't include any help people have given with the
>  Wiki.
>
>  Part of the problem is that I really don't like writing documentation,
>  and since I'm chronically overcommitted (and chronically spend too much
>  time working on syslinux as it is) it's what gets put off.
>
>         -hpa
>



-- 
Murali

கற்றது கை மண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு
(What we know is only a handful, what we dont is the rest of the world)