[OpenWrt-Devel] Documentation in the tree? [Was: Re: [PATCH v3] gemini: Support sysupgrade on DIR-685]

[Petr Štetiar]

Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> [2019-05-20 23:48:41]:

[adding Alberto, Thomas and Javier to the Cc: loop]

> how you want the sysupgrade to work.

it's just preferred to share as much common code as possible.

> Maybe we could open a documentation page for new devices, like here is how
> we want you to implement sysupgrade, I had a hard time to figure out that
> all was circuling around the platform.sh script and how that was called from
> the core sysupgrade.

indeed, some documentation would be certainly nice and welcome, but I think,
that it's clear, that having the documentation decoupled from the code (wiki
today) leads often to outdated (incomplete, even factually wrong or misleadin)
documentation which might be even more confusing for the starters then current
"read the code Luke" approach.

I mean, maybe this is the right time to rethink[1,2], so we could have
docs/Documentation folder in the source tree, like it's done in the kernel and
other projects.

1. https://lede.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
2. https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2017-November/009888.html

-- ynezz

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