[Xastir] Poll: how do you like your documentation served up?
Tom Russo
russo at bogodyn.org
Thu Dec 11 10:46:25 PST 2025
Xastir's documentation is a bit, um, fragmented? We have READMEs of various
vintages, we've got a wiki that is sometimes (but not often) kept up-to-date.
I am starting to look into revamping more of our documentation, starting
with README.MAPS (which is very, very outdated and not at all a good
resource for first time users). I have to decide whether to rewrite the
whole file or pitch it and just do the documentation on the wiki. We
already have a "HowTo:MAPS" wiki page which is a subset of README.MAPS and
almost as out of date. I don't want to have to maintain TWO documentation
sets, as keeping them synced is a maintenance headache.
So, of you remaining Xastir users, what would you prefer to look at: README
files or a wiki, or something else?
And if you can imagine yourself being a first-time Xastir user, what would
you prefer to be told to do when you have to learn how to do something for
the first time:
"go look at our wiki on page xxxxx" or "go read the file README.XXX" or
something else?
And while I'm at it: "do you actually use Xastir anymore?"
--
Tom Russo KM5VY
Tijeras, NM
echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m]
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