[mythtv-users] Re:MythTV Help Website

Kyle Anderson kyle at ij.net
Tue Apr 13 23:44:15 EDT 2004


John,
It sounds like you had a bad experience. When you say "due to lack of
support," do you mean financially? Or from the community, "dissallowing me
to simply mirror their mythtv howtos/docs?"
I recently read an article
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/levesque/index.html referred from
slashdot about some complaints about OSS.  Here is a quote:

"Also, anyone who has ever had to debug a problem in Open Source software
knows that the answers don't lie in Open Source software documentation: they
're found in Usenet articles, bulletin boards and chat logs. Users who can't
figure out how to do something runs to alt.projectx.devel and asks the same
question as hundreds of users before them. Some expert takes pity on their
plight and responds to their question, but never documents this answer. So
when the next user hits the same problem, the process has to be repeated.
Additionally, this is making the fundamentally flawed assumption that users
are capable of finding these alternative streams of communication [4], or
that they're patient enough and care about the product enough, to bother.
Without adequate documentation, Open Source projects are inherently at a
disadvantage."

This is exactly what I want to solve. First with online documentation, then
with in program documentation. From your experience, how do you recommend I
proceed?  Searching through mailing list archives for answers is not a great
system. I believe a comprehensive website is a better one. There are many
other guides and howto's out there. A website is a good Idea, but I don't
really want to compete, I would rather contribute. But not to a message
board or mailing list.
Kyle Anderson

>
>I own Mythtv.info which i shut down... due to lack of support..
>
>I am considering putting a wiki at the site and letting it and its users
>handle itself..
>
>--John
>
>Kyle Anderson wrote:
>
>> Fellow Users,
>>     I have been using MythTv for a few months and I love it. The
>> process has forced me to dive deeply into the world of unix and open
>> source, and I would like to contribute to the community.
>>     I am designing a website. It will be a place for comprehensive
>> documentation on all aspects of MythTv. I don't want it to replace the
>> mailing list, or the official site; but a website people can goto and
>> find out what that toilet paper icon means :)
>>     What do you guys think? How does mythtvhelp.com sound?
>> Kyle Anderson
>>
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