Which particular aspects of the mandriva wiki do you particularly like. From a cursory glance I agree that it seems very welll organised.darrelljon wrote:I looked at the Mandriva Wiki and its looks a lot better. I would also like for Puppy documentation to be on general manual/how-to websites so people who haven't encountered Puppy or are casual users might contribute without having to register for a separate username and password.
I don't really understand why casual users would particularly want to contribute to the manual. Registering on puppylinux.org isn't hard and would seem sensible if you are serious about using puppy. There are many maal editors on the site and all regisered users can add comments to the manual pages for the editors to take action on.
I'm with pizzasgood and lobster on making small incremental changes and on rotating the "coordinator" or release engineer. I too am unwilling to commit to doing assigned tasks in a fixed timeframe. Many of us have formed small partnerships of people that we work well with on different projects. Bringing these different partneships to the front in different released may help to ensure that different releases bring improvements in different areas. ie
release 1 has a focus on multimedia
release 2 a new kernel
release 3 graphics and themeing
release 4 event handling
release 5 purely bug fixing
....by choosing a short fixed schedule
each leader has an oportunity to add a small number of features and benefits. A small number of features reduces the numer of intodued bugs. If they fail, stall or procrastinate they don't block puppy as a whole, they don't force some sort of leadership challege or forking the next cycle just moves on.
Another benefit to a short time scale is it is easier to commit for that period. For example I could probably get away with coordinating a release for 6 weeks without sacrificing my studies or risking divorce any long than that and puppy starts getting in the way of real life.
So ttuuxxx I would be happy to fully support you as coordinator for the 4.2 release on the understanding that the target time is 6-8 weeks, the number of changes will be focussed, limited, identified in advance (do one thing well) and that you step down afterwards and allow someone else to run the next release.
I would love to see both pizzasgood and dougal run releases as they too have released quality puplets in the past and have a very lng history of contributing to puppy. I wonder if Nathan F would like to have a crack too I don't know how much time grafpup takes these days.