From: Gustavo Ponza (aynvgak@fh-brandenburg.de)
Date: Sun Aug 12 2001 - 08:16:28 EEST
Hi Jeff and all,
I begun for myself, a couple of months ago, for a completely
revorking of AX25-HOWTO and also inserting over 60 kb of new
or missing material... but then stopped that work for several
reason. If of interest no problem for my contribute.
73 de Gus i0ojj
Jeff Tranter wrote:
>
> I used the Linux AX25 software almost 3 years ago to play around with
> packet radio. Shortly after that, 1200bps packet on 2 meters basically
> died out in my area. I've been looking at it again with the intention
> of getting an APRS station on the air, and I was also looking for ways
> to help contribute to Linux AX25 development.
>
> As I was looking at the documentation, I made a few observations:
>
> 1. The Linux AX25 HOWTO is very out of date, not having been updated
> since October 1997.
>
> 2. The Linux HAM HOWTO also hasn't been updated since 1997 and is no
> longer on-line at the Linux Documentation Project site.
>
> 3. The AX25 software on SourceForge has essentially no documentation
> beyond the man pages.
>
> As someone who actually enjoys writing, and author of a couple of
> Linux HOWTOs already, I'd be interesting in tackling the project to
> update the AX25 and/or Ham HOWTOs. I would do this provided that (1)
> I felt that there was a reasonable level of interest in these HOWTOs,
> and (2) people on this mailing list could help answer questions on
> things I am not familiar with or cannot test because I don't have the
> necessary equipment.
>
> Any thoughts on whether this would be useful, or is the Linux AX25
> community so small that it doesn't justify documenting beyond man
> pages and the source code? My feeling is that the lack of HOWTO
> documentation is a barrier to getting more people using these tools.
> I'm guessing the AX25 HOWTO would be a higher priority to update
> that the HAM HOWTO (although probably more work).
>
> I don't want to step on any toes, and if Terry Dawson or someone else
> is planning to update these HOWTOs soon, I'll gladly step aside, but I
> suspect that the developers' time is better spent working on the AX25
> code and people like me who aren't core developers can help out by
> testing and documenting.
>
> Jeff Tranter
> VE3ICH
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