On Mon, 16 May 2011 09:02:46 -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca said: > Definitely a forward thinking project.
Thanks, Peter. :) (myself being the guy who started this little Smartphone Debian shindig. ;) ) > Cell capability is not a requirement for Debian and not all handheld > computers > have cell capability. Why not amalgamate > http://wiki.debian.org/Handheld, > http://wiki.debian.org/Mobile and http://wiki.debian.org/Smartphone? > Wouldn't efforts be focussed better? Quick history: 1) after I decided since noone else was doing it, it must be my responsibility to get the ball rolling. So, I created wiki.debian.org/Smartphone to hold info about the project. 2) Then, I went looking for the page in the debian wiki which would logically link to the Smartphone page. There were basically 2 possibilities, working forward from the main deb wiki page: a) from a "debian subdistros" page, or b) from the "hardware" page, reasoning someone might think "I have a smartphone. It is hw. I'll look under hw to see what debian has going." 3) Basically, after checking a bit, 2b was the easiest to do. 4) But, the hw page had a not-yet-improved flaw: There was no distinction between "systems" & "components". The systems: desktop, handheld, laptop, server - what you'd install debian _on_, were just alphabetically included in the "components" list. NOTE: Mobile was not mentioned on the Hardware page. So, I first separated the list into systems & components section. Then, I added a link to "Smartphone" from the "Handheld" page. It was only a week or so later that i noticed that all of Desktop, Laptop & Server didn't each have their own page of info, they all were just links to "http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn";. So, that is a rather less than useful kind of link. Really, the proper way to handle those is to eliminate those "Hardware" links, & just put all 3 of those together on that page with a text note to look at the http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn page. Only "Handheld" had/has some real content about handhelds, including the link to Smartphone. == So, I'll venture to state "Mobile"'s content should be be properly integrated into a higher level wiki page, such as "Hardware", in some way - like, perhaps as a "Mobile" link - though that might be duplicative. == Best wishes to you, Peter, or anyone, if you want to do something to improve that section of the wiki! == Join in the Global monthly meetings, via voice, about all Free SW HW & Culture http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/ Smartphone Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/Smartphone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1305610155.26197.1452718...@webmail.messagingengine.com
