[mythtv] New project ideas/proposals - documentation tools

Ramzy Darwish ramzy.darwish at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 14:47:48 EDT 2005


Hello All,
I have been trying to find a way that I could contribute to mythtv for
some time now and I am hoping what I have in mind is a desired
feature.

I have two actually, but they are very closely related.

1) Myth-UsersGuide - I want to write up a printable booklet that would
be like a user's guide for people USING mythtv. It would be an
'elaborated' subset of the great docs at mythtv.org and would be
intended to be used by the 'other' people using mythtv in our homes.
Like spouses and kids who don't know all of the intimate details that
'administrators' learn through getting the system up to snuff. it
would be similar to any user's guide you get with a tv or vcr or
something (I may even look at what the Tivo user's guide is like) and
would have a section on using and changing settings for the main myth
program as well as all of the 'plugins' like mythmusic and mythnews,
etc., It would have pictures with labels and all that good stuff and
would be meant to be used by a novice or someone who knows nothing
about linux or how this thing works at all.

Is anybody working on this? Can I help? DO you think it would be useful?

2) MythHelp or MythSearch 
I intend this to be an addin module for mythweb that would allow you
to search the main documentation resources that we all look at when
trying to solve our problems. It would have a simple config file where
you could add and remove websites (sites or documents) that a simple
search engine would look through for help with problems. Right now, I
was thinking it would search the mailing-lists, mythtv.org and
mythtv.info, then maybe some of the larger howtos (jarod's of course,
magicitx.com, etc.,). And maybe it could have a running list of FAQs
or recently asked questions on the mailing lists as a front page.

What do you all think? Is it just as simple to go to google? Is this
unnecessary? I don't know PHP, but I assume it's not too bad (i know
perl and python) and could easily modify/extend mythweb to do this.
Does anyone know of a good open source search engine that I could use,
or would I have to write my own (not a problem).

Please tell me what you think.


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Ramzy Darwish
ramzy.darwish at gmail.com
http://ramzydarwish.net


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