11-21-2019, 07:30 AM
(11-20-2019, 03:25 PM)dukla2000 Wrote:(11-20-2019, 02:32 PM)tophneal Wrote: I'm not sure either. What about the other pages did you find troublesome? Since it's a wiki, we should discuss potentially helpful changes. What bothered you may be bothering others.It was 18 months ago so I plead the 5th! But I do remember going round in circles via the NOOB page which was widely referenced as the place to start but in fact was not relevant to me. I was coming from 2 years of RasPi as my daily driver and it had no Etcher, also the Pine64 installer did not support the RockChip boards. And getting back to the ToC on any page was a PITA, I wasforever scrolling up and down to try find the bit I thought I had read somewhere.
So my aim is to have a simple/short startline (like the OP in this thread) and then broaden out for folks who need more. Indeed I have even put a link to the NOOB page. Equally I figure at least for BraveHeart "timespan" it is going to be useful to capture details about the various releases as some are going to move faster than others. Yup there will be feedback on IRC and in this forum (as well as others such as UBports) and the best place to collate them for a newcomer is in our wiki. Which sort of drove my choice of subsections for each release.
The thread linked in the OP mirrors exactly what I would want to know;
1) How do I get my PinePhone working
2) Then some supplementary questions
What did you have in mind that would be different?
Haha! I understand, those kinds of annoyances aren't worth holding onto. This is a great breakdown, despite the lapse in memory. I also admit that I have been frustrated when landing on the previous Noobs page. I remember a lot of links not taking me to the pages I expected, like a link with text concerning device images and the link takes you to a device overview page, instead of the Software Releases page.
Revisiting it now, it seems to have been cleaned up a lot. I think given its content of flashing instructions, the instructions for the PinePhone would be suitable to add there as well. Perhaps even a small section with links to the various Software Release pages.
Truly, the only reason I brought up the subject is consistency within the wiki. I feel it'll be more easily navigable and less confusing to newcomers if device information is laid out in a consistent manner, whether that be conforming the new PinePhone page to that of the other devices, or changing the other device pages to emulate the PinePhone page. You make a valid point, though, since the PinePhone is still in the Braveheart phase. Quick access to the information will be needed, but not necessary for many.