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May 27, 2012, 11:57
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[Discussion] Restructuring the Installation page at openfoamwiki.net
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Greetings to all!
I'm starting this thread to discuss the restructuring of this page: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation I know that the wiki page has a discussion page of its own at the wiki, but that's barely read/answered by anyone  And I'm honestly becoming very tired of constantly answering almost the same things over and over and over and over.... and not matter how many blog posts I can write, how many answers I write, they'll only postpone what needs to be done: we must restructure the Installation page at the openfoamwiki.net  So, to start off (instead of creating havoc and chaos on my own) here is the proposed structure:
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{{#categorytree:OpenFOAM guide|mode=pages}}
Copy-paste-modify instructions is pretty easy, so to me it makes sense to have a page per version/variant. As for Linux distributions, since some details change considerably (e.g. Fedora et al use "module load"), there are two possibilities that should be considered/discussed:
So here it is, the idea I've brewed so far. If this is already in discussion elsewhere... I'm not familiar with it  I think there are some details here that escape me, such as "OpenFOAM 2.1.x" being a sub-category of "OpenFOAM on Linux", but I think that this might be overcome by the page title itself. For example, the category tree would look like this:
edit: In case of situations such as Debian and Ubuntu behaving almost identically, a page could be tagged with both categories: "Installing OpenFOAM on Debian" and "Installing OpenFOAM on Ubuntu", for the same page "Installation/Linux/Debian/OpenFOAM 2.1.x". Best regards, Bruno
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May 28, 2012, 12:15
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May 29, 2012, 08:13
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Thanks for your initiative Bruno. This is really overdue, there's lots of installation related text on the wiki that is hopelessly outdated, making it hard to find the actual information.
About the category tree, organizing according to OpenFoam versions (as follows) seems more natural to me than the tree you suggested, but I think that's subjective. - Anton Quote:
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May 29, 2012, 16:36
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Hi Bernhard and Anton,
@Bernhard: OK, as soon as I can, perhaps next weekend, I'll start hacking away through the pages @Anton: Quote:
 I'm not certain how to do that structure with categories... It'll take some experimentation...[RANT] After the conclusions that were inevitably reached with the Nucleation project, the only logical thing right now is to do documentation in the fully open wiki, instead of overblown scripting - although it was a good exercise  - so this way people can learn and experience more about the shell, instead of hogging all of the experience to ourselves  [/RANT] Keep ideas coming! Best regards, Bruno
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Does this look better? (I switched 2.1.x and Fedora) Quote:
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FYI: I've began the restructuring process.
For now, I'm doing stuff sort-of in the back-doors and not editing the main Installation page. The current entry point is this: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation/Linux For now, it seems that we can get 2 types of category tree listings in the same tree (and maybe also possible in separate trees):
I've got the idea that the generic source code installation instructions can be written using templates, which would make it easier to write and maintain a lot of stuff... but it's still too early to decide
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August 12, 2012, 18:57
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OK, I think the base structure is all laid out: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation
The old monolithic page has been copy-pasted and referred to at the top of the page. The category tree seems rather clumsy right now, but the only using sub-categories in the tree lacks detail, while the sub-pages prefix listing mode is hard-coded to 3 columns... oh well, optimum is the enemy of good Next weekend(s) I hope to do the following:
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Greetings to all!
It's been a while since I gave some feedback on this.The last few days I've been in a bit of a vacation and I managed to focus on taking care of some of the things I wanted to do. This included updating and adding installation instructions, including:
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Greetings to all!
I was going to open two discussion threads at openfoamwiki.net regarding this, but I think this is a better place for this. The questions are somewhat simple/short:
In review of the previous post, I'm now keeping track of the pages that I still need to finish writing here: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Us...finish_writing Best regards, Bruno
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Hi Bernhard,
Many thanks! Then so it shall be:
Best regards, Bruno
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November 1, 2013, 19:43
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Hi Bernhard,
Many thanks! I've gotten the message loud and clear! I'm going to look/search into the wiki and find a good way to change from the point of view of "me me me" to "if you don't know what you could write about, here are some ideas"/"these pages are currently incomplete, feel free to help with anything in it". I know the "HowTo" section already has something like that, but there are other pages (beyond the ones I've started and haven't finished yet ) that still need some help. And there was that new FAQ section on how to help, so I'll have a look into how to sort it all out.Best regards, Bruno
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November 2, 2013, 12:43
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And here we go, here's what I've taken care of today:
Best regards, Bruno edit: I didn't manage to gather the inspiration to finish writing the 3 pages. I'll try to have a look into them in a few weekends from now.
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