Hardware Support

[Phil Bull]

Hi Marc,

[Oops, sent that last email prematurely.]

On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 07:54 -0400, Marc Kaplan wrote:
> For those looking for something to do, if it meets with the community's 
> approval, I recommend that ALL documents linked to, from:
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport
> 
> Be moved to the main:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community section, under Hardware.
> 
> As you can tell, I did a little reorganizing of the HardwareSupport page 
> to help give some guidance to a "possible" organizational structure with 
> a logical flow.
> 
> Prior to moving these documents, I think they should be updated and 
> reorganized.
> 
> What does everyone else think?
> 
> There are a LOT of documents here and this would be a fairly large 
> undertaking as it will be lots of relinking, but less confusion for end 
> users between the 2 wiki's.  Isn't that what this cleanup process is all 
> about :)

I agree that these documents would be better located in the help wiki.
Before this can happen though, we need to make sure that we have a good
plan for making the move.

At the moment, the hardware support pages are a real usability
nightmare. Tables upon tables of sometimes out-of-date, sometimes
cryptic/technical information. Half the time, the only useful
information in there is whether the device works or not; nothing on how
to get it working! If we were to make the move, I'd advocate rethinking
the whole format of hardware support pages.

Even better, we could use/develop a dedicated hardware support database
[1]; a wiki perhaps isn't the best medium for hardware support
information. Does anyone know of any "official" attempts to work on
this?

Thanks,

Phil

[1] - http://www.ubuntuhcl.org/

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