Hi Ric, > I am DOA for now which is okay since I need to spend some quality time > with the dremel and a SuperMicro SC750 case anyway. Where "DOA" and "dremel" mean...? > THE biggest problem is that there is not any registration function. > Wikis are for collaborative efforts but apparently Trac does not have a > simple registration function. All I saw was that the admin has to run > an admin script to assign permisssions. I certainly hope that is robust > enough to be automated, :). We disabled that feature of trac on purpose, because it made it very easy for spammers to create fake accounts and ruin our site. I agree it pretty much voids the point of having a wiki, and we need to find a solution to this problem. > I cannot do anything until I can be registered with at least the link > changing function. > > I stopped at the FAQ link(s). As more than likely the first place any > user will look for info, if they look at all, ;), I wish you were true... > it needs to be available and, It looks available enough to me, do you see a problem there? > I suggest, editable. That presents a > Copyright problem. > Copyright (C) 1998 - 2005 > Frodo Looijaard, > Philip Edelbrock, > Mark D. Studebaker > and > Jean Delvare > > Since that *might* be considered as expired, Copyrights expired after one year? In what country do you leave? > authors' permissions s/b > all that is needed to adjust it. I saw no 'license' for it; merely the > copyright statement. There is no mention of license anywhere on the FAQ > page. > > Is that doc supposed to fall under the GPL as an official part of the > lm_sensors project? The FAQ used to be (and actually still is) part the the lm_sensors tree itself, so I'd say yes. > > The '' Licensed under GPL '' blurb is missing from the lm_sensors home > page so maybe that sentence s/b added so we all know that code _and_ > documents are GPL'd, unless of course somebody wants to license > documents under the GFDL, > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL, or similar. ;) Good point, we mention that our software is "OSI Certified open source software", but we don't mention GPL. We should. > AS for the FAQ, I suggest a temporary fix by making the Contents list > correct and linked to the current FAQ page, as such: > [code] > Table of Contents > http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html?format=raw > > [FAQ/Chapter1 Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview] > http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html?format=raw#Top > > [FAQ/Chapter2 Chapter 2: Sensor and Bus Basics] > http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html?format=raw#toc_Basics > > [FAQ/Chapter3 Chapter 3: Installation and Management] > http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html?format=raw#toc_Installation > > [FAQ/Chapter3 Chapter 4: Problems] > http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html?format=raw#toc_Problems > > [FAQ/Chapter4 Chapter 5: How to Ask for Help] > http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html?format=raw#toc_Help > > [FAQ/Chapter5 Chapter 6: How to Contribute] > http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html?format=raw#toc_Contribute > > [FAQ/Appendix: Revision history of this document] > http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html?format=raw#Document-Revisions > [/code] > > That's pretty easy to do/change on the page and should work until such > time that Registration is available and working securely. Before doing that, we must take a decision about what the FAQ source will be. Currently the FAQ source is a texi document, which is converted to plain text and HTML and distributed with lm_sensors itself. Rudolf Marek merged it into the wiki, so now we have two versions. I will let him explain what are his plans for the future. We certainly don't want to maintain two sources for the FAQ. -- Jean Delvare
