Re: Writing down design documents

[Bas Wijnen]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 04:51:59AM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> So why not write down some documentation about what we are discussing
> here, to make it easier for newcomers to grab the situation when they
> want? (and for the others to refresh their memory when they need)

Sounds good.

> Here are the main documents I'd like to see to find information quicker:
> - Design principles

What a design principle is, or what design principles we (plan to) use?
Probably both, right? :-)

> - Concepts (things like POSIX, capabilities, etc.)
> - Subsystems

What kind of subsystems do you mean?  Can you give examples?  Somehting like
device drivers, or the graphics system?  Or?

> Could the main contributors of the discussions state if they agree or
> not on this idea?

Yes, I agree that it would be a good idea, and would like to help write these
things.

> so I'm willing to try to write at least stub pages and begin to fill them
> with what has been said on the list,

Sounds good.  Where do you plan to put them?  A wiki seems suitable for this.

Thanks,
Bas

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