[Dri-devel] Re: DRI website updated

[Smitty <sm...@we...>]

Howzit?

> I've updated the Documentation page of the website. I've copied all the
> docs from Precision Insight's "Insight" page and put them onto our site.
> The link to the "Insight" page has been removed.

So all the docs relating to DRI are on dri.sourceforge now?=20
If not why not, centralisation on a small scale is usually a good idea, o=
bviously links are in some cases acceptable.

> 1. Read through the FAQ comments and delete old/wrong/off-topic posts.
> There is a FAQ admin page that lets you delete comments. Anybody
> interested in doing this let me know and I will tell you how. This does
> not really need to be done, but it might be a good idea to clean up the
> comments.

Did Jos=E9 do this? IIRC he did.

> 2. Regarding the above, the FAQ admin page could be improved. Right now
> every comment has to be deleted by clicking a button. It would be nicer
> if you could mark comments to be deleted (via checkboxes) and then pres=
s
> one big button. Anybody that knows PHP and wants to tackle this, let me
> know. It would make task 1 much easier.
Not for me. Anyone?

> 3. It might be nice to put up a "Links" page with links to related
> projects/companies, such as: Xfree86, Mesa, FbDri, Precision Insight,
> Tungsten Graphics, ....

Has this been done? Else I'll do it / update it whatever. Link submission=
s?

> 4. On the "About DRI" page it still says that the "principal developers=
"
> of the DRI are employed by VA Linux and a bunch of other VA Linux stuff.
> Anybody who can come up with an updated and nice sounding paragraph to
> replace that, send it in and I will put it up.

What would you like it to say? I'll write something but exactly what depe=
nds.
I know something eg Tungsten Graphics would be apropriate but what else?
Principal developer submissions?

> 5. Liam (sm...@we...) is working on putting together a bette=
r
> status page with a card/chipset feature checklist. I am sure he could
> use some help, so anybody intersted in that can help him out.

Yes I have / am, and about those other ATI cards ie r128 and mach64 they =
have pretty much the same feature list as the Radeon, a few less maybe bu=
t certainly not (many) more. =20
Feature / status submissions?

Liam
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