Best place for HOWTO documents for your favourite application?

[Scott Ritchie]

Reece Dunn wrote:
> 2008/5/26 Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>:
>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have been trying our various Oberon Media games. The thing that is
>>> holding this up from working is the hyperlinks on the intro screen (I
>>> am going to enter a bug report later on).
>>>
>>> I have worked out how to run and register the games (given a valid
>>> registration key that you have purchased) so that they will work under
>>> Wine. So this got me wondering... where do I put this?
>>>
>>> This complements the appdb, but is in a way orthogonal to it (that is
>>> there may be HOWTOs relating to individual games/applications, to
>>> vendors or to other areas such as installing Windows themes like the
>>> Zune theme). It will also help when more people start using Wine and
>>> want to get their favorite application running.
>>>
>>> My initial thoughts are that the wiki seems like a good place for
>>> this. Thoughts? Comments?
>> I don't see why this shouldn't be put in the AppDB. The wiki may be
>> useful for installing themes, etc., but this seems to be related to a
>> particular app/vendor, and should be in the AppDB.
> 
> Ok. However, I don't see anything on the AppDB forms for entering
> HOWTO information for a vendor or application and linking application
> notes to the vendor version.
> 
> Do you mean these should be in the Application Comments section? If
> so, what about having Vendor Comments as well? However, these feel
> more like email discussions about applications and the HOWTO notes
> could get lost in the noise; in addition to this, the HOWTO may evolve
> and thus it would be harder to track down which is the right one.
> 

Hmm...with the current software you may have to be a maintainer and make
a Howto for each game then.  Alternatively you could put a link in each
howto to another AppDB (or wiki) page, if you want to keep the
instructions centralized.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie