Re: [Dri-devel] new DRI homepage

[Nicholas L. <ni...@by...>]

> 
> Keeping all this up to date requires significant upkeep. This stuff
> changes very rapidly and running the tests takes time and effort.
> 
> If we've got anyone who's good with PHP this is the sort of things that
> can be user contributed. There are FAQ'O'Matic tools that create faqs
> out of people asking and answering questions. One could also build a set
> of PHP scripts (and a database) that allow people to submit benchmarks
> on their machines and report results.
> 
> It's all good ideas, but I'm not willing to do much on it until we get
> some people to volunteer to keep it running. Having less information is
> better than having wrong information. 
> 
> 						- |Daryll

I think that's a really good point, however, sometimes wrong info
is better than no info, cause it can give a general idea of how things
did go together at one point, and an idea of what to look for even
though some things may have changed, whereas with no info at
all, there isn't even a starting point.  (as long as we put the date
on the docs and the version/date of the code it pertains to, this
should be ok imo)

I am fairly competent at php where those needs are concerned.  I
could help set up some scripts to generate/update the pages from
a db if need be.

I think the FAQ'O'Matic is a good idea.  Or something like the old
php3 web site docs (almost forum like--but on a per-function basis--
we could do a per-card or per-feature basis).

User submitted benchmarks would probably be the best way to
go if we want to obtain a significant number of them.

Nick

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