> I decided after getting burned out on all this Y2K update stuff, to
> grab a copy of the AX25-HOWTO and start updating it! After creating a
> simple index of all the topics, I've come to the quick conclusion that I
> think the current howto can/should be split up. I can clearly see three
> different areas:
>
> AX25-KERNEL-HOWTO
> AX25-HARDWARE-HOWTO
> AX25-TPU-HOWTO
Mark,
I'd advise against it. While the division looks logical you'll find the
divisions quite arbitrary and strong interrelationships between them.
At the moment I don't believe there is enough material to justify it, and
when there is, then there is a better solution altogether. For example,
the AX25-KERNEL-HOWTO would be tiny, unless you were going to move the
sections that describe what kernel options need to be selected for a particular
piece of hardware and place them there. Of course that would be silly, that
information should be with the rest of the information relating to that
class of hardware, otherwise what will you put in the AX25-HARDWARE-HOWTO?
Splitting the AX25-HOWTO into seperate documents will cause problems, because
the division is fairly arbitrary and you will find strong relationships between
the documents that may necessitate replicating information in order to make
any one document suitable standalone.
I think additionally it will place burden on the reader (needs to search for
and read three seperate documents) and on the document maintainer (must
maintain consistency between documents).
regards
Terry
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