If, and when, a major update occurs, it will only take a few hours of one of us to get a PDF version of that manual. Will the WIKI be updated instantly or after the dust settles? Only time will tell. In any case, the changes to the WIKI will probably be to only add another section/chapter or two to cover the setup and configuration. (I am thinking primarily of those folks with less than eight to ten drives in their protected array.) So changes will not (really) be necessary until until the promised dual parity option comes out.Īnd, even then, how many people will remain with the single parity option? I certainly hope that the interface and configuration will not be changed dramatically for those folks who decide that dual parity does not really offer that that many advantages over the single parity option when the added cost and complexity are factored in. As you read through it, you will quickly discover that 99% of the material covers only the installation, configuration, and configuration settings of unRAID. If you look at the WIKI page, you will see that it is entitled 'UnRAID Manual 6'. I think this is one of those situations where everyone is right. but I also think that given a choice many would prefer a PDF manual that they can peruse at their leisure, whether or not they actually print it (most would NOT do that). Most users will probably be just fine using the wiki as opposed to a PDF. No need to apologize, I just read yours and Brit's post and had one of these moments:

But I know there are procedures best handled in a wiki.

I did point out the 'printable version' link that people can useįor the record, my preference is for development with well written inline help even above the wiki. Sorry man i wasn't trying to be that guy.īut yeah, its official and compatible. It's just a distraction from getting you guys better features and more frequent releases. I appreciate what Frank did here, but beyond stickying the thread (which I will do), don't expect us to do anything else with this. 10 years of selling the product without maintaining documentation in downloadable/printable form says so. Sure, it may take 10 seconds to google search 'Media Wiki Automated PDF Conversion' or something like that, but do either of you really think it's just 'click install and done'? There are countless things to consider:ġ - Is this add-on official or 3rd party?Ģ - Is it compatible with our version of Media Wiki?ģ - Will it break our integration with SMF?Ĥ - How cleanly does it output the content?ĥ - If we use this add-on, will this limit our upgradeability in the future?Ħ - How much downtime will it take to apply and test this add-on?ħ - Why are we even doing this when the wiki is fine for 99% of people?Īnd do you want us spending gobs of time figuring something like this out or adding features / fixing bugs in unRAID? We have plans to reinvest in our website, wiki, and forums at some point in the not-too-distant future, but for now, these types of distractions are just not important enough for us to worry about. That's what I meant, just to spend tiny amount of time finding proper tools to automate things. this won't give a ToC with clickable links, but if you're actually physically printing, I don't think that works with paper -) It is limited however, in practical functionality, for pages that are 'complete' otherwise you'd have to select each page you're interested, open the printable version, and then print it. A quick search for 'mediawiki + pdf' yielded the top result: ĮDIT: I also see from the 4.7 link above that there is a 'printable version' link.

In fact, I see that you are using mediawiki.

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