So far it seems like definitive, official, up-to-date documentation is one of the things that a conventional business structure does a lot better than the bazar. Surely there must be a business case for computer sound interface makers to invest something in maintaining useful HOWTOs for their products used with Linux. Meanwhile, it seems like a WIKI is a good technology for preserving and making findable the results of problem-solving discussions on the newsgroup. WIKIs and forums (fora?) have been set up, but draw little content. Why not? On Tuesday 09 September 2003 11:51 am, Daniel James wrote: > > It looks to me like a good place to put this info is in the "user > > notes" attached to the ALSA sound card matrix: > > > > There is also a WIKI for ALSA soundcard HOWTOs at > > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaOpensrcOrg but it looks > > to me like it is less active recently. > > Both of these are out of date. I tried to submit updates to the ALSA > matrix, but it appears to be unmaintained. The SuSE hardware database > is no better - I was surprised to see this was also out of date, > given that SuSE is offering a commercial distribution based on ALSA. Are you saying that the "Add comment" button on http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ just dumps the comments into a black hole? How sad. I do see what claims to be a user comment from as recently as june 2003 on the Hammerfall DSP page. As for the matrix itself, I wonder how long it will be before alsa-project notices that Midiman changed their name to M-Audio years ago. Jeepers! > > I'm afraid it doesn't reflect very well on the LAU community that all > these docs are out of date. I know it's a boring job, but it's so > important to have reliable hardware compatibility information. Is > there no way we could combine the best parts of the matrix and the > wiki to make a new, definitive and official document? > > Cheers > > Daniel
