At this discussion, there have been reading such good ideas, some of
which had already been thought (but not this deeply) by the Haiku doc
team. They also had thought about "media live walk-troughs" or "Haiku
tours" made in mpeg or even in a gif-slides-presentation, but here there
is another "issue": we have no official source where take snapshots
from, or where to take accurate Haiku way-to-do-it API / apps / etc.
Have you noticed how much different it is to do some "superficial user"
things between R5PE (as is from the original pack, been still downloaded
from bebits) and the BeOS Max PE, the Developper Ed (I wonder if that's
the way to write it in French) and the Dan0 clones? Some of the apps
don't even match! And that comes only because of the updating process.
And I say this without even thinking about Netserver/Bone or
Netpositive/Firefox or if the distros have a particular app (has Haiku
have an official statement about which apps will it be have? I guess it
does not, as it is no finished Haiku).
To write a "Haiku wiki" or something related, I guess it is a good time
to start, as we have several parts of it working smoothly, but don't
wait them to be "user friendly". If right now you want to write help
files, you'll be walking on the air. If you like to doc the apps as they
are being released, Please, be welcomed! As Haiku IS being different in
many "inside" aspects with R5, it would be great to list the differences
from now on, as they are still easy to get (well, as if would be when it
is finished). I guess we could write basic help files from the BeOS
distro we have (PhOS, Max, Developper... even Zeta) pointing that they
are not Haiku (at least internally) and update them as the Haiku
equivalents are being released... because there will be some point when
the apps will be ready and the developers won't wait for the doc crew to
review them all.
As a conclusion, right now it wouldn't be a "Totally Haiku" HaikuPedia,
but could be a "Be(AnyBe/OSBOS)Pedia".
