These are my reasons for building a new HCL. What do you think about it?
openSUSE HCL - ideas
In the past few days we have a little conversation about openSUSE HCL http://forums.opensuse.org/general-chit-chat/421857-opensuse-hcl-idea-improve.html and about some new ideas to improve it:
search-based HCL - like http://www.ubuntuhcl.org/ instead of showing wiki-pages there is a search form with advanced filtering options - what definitely reduces the search time. It would be also practical if you're searching for a specific hardware or you just want to browse the list of hardwares by the selected manufacturer to see, which devices are supported.
input forms for new entries Do you know the wiki-syntax? The most basic formatting options are easy to learn, but it's still required to know if you want to add a new hardware or configuration to the HCL. My opinion is, that for a newbie user it's a critical point to finish your contribution. Modifying the data using forms would be simpler then browsing through a long wiki-page to modify a word or two.
These are my reasons for building a new HCL. What do you think about it?
These are my reasons for building a new HCL. What do you think about it?
2 comments:
As i didn't participate in the forum thread yet. You are right about the wiki syntax. I pass my laptop spec to oldcpu in the forum, and he added it to the HCL, because i didn't like the wiki syntax to use, quite difficult to use it.
My opinion would be, to have such a system which is easy to use and do the entry system for each hardware spec, which would be of course not like wiki syntaxes. Somehow like a form to use and fill it up.
Yes, this is exactly what I thought a simple form, that would be enough and a form based search too with filtering.
I'll open a feature request about that on https://features.opensuse.org/.
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