[Raion]

Hey guys, 

There's a poll here, mostly to see what kind of content you all would find most helpful to supplement the wiki's primary topics with. I'll explain the types of content that each option entails below:

1. IRIX Usage Tutorials

Mostly more rephrasing, repackaging and refactoring of existing pages out there explaining how to do basic tasks of IRIX. 

The most contemporary example on the wiki is: https://wiki.irixnet.org/IRIX-Setup-101

So a vote for this is a vote for that variety of content

2. Programming Tips, Topics and Such

Note this is DISTINCT from tutorials proper. Rather, this is me exploring and trying to explain common difficulties of porting to IRIX. There's a lot of ground I can cover here, but a an example is: https://wiki.irixnet.org/Common-Porting-Issues or https://wiki.irixnet.org/MIPSPro

A vote for this is more of that type. 

3. Programming Tutorials

I'm not to the point my skills are such that programming on big topics, and talking about them at length, are my specialty. However, I'm rapidly getting to the point I can do that; so this will be basically a "Learn C/C++, Learn OpenGL/IRISGL, Learn TCL/Lua" type set of tutorials, adapted to IRIX and adapted solely to an IRIX-centric audience. They'll cover common issues that you'd find coding for IRIX and more. 

I don't have any examples of this, and I suppose that the biggest roadblock here will be making sure that what I write is technically accurate and not teaching bad habits and spending appropriate amounts of time explaining it. I found a lot of frustration just starting out on just how little UNIX-centric coding material is up to date, and not just K&R, early ANSI, or C89 related stuff. 

4. Advanced IRIX Administration Tutorials

The structure of these would be presenting a question or a problem, exploring 2-3 solutions, and walking the reader through those solutions and how to solve them on IRIX. Instead of just telling the user what to do, teach them how to make an educated guess of which method suits them the most and such. 

5. Techpubs/Manual Repositories

Lemme be clear, I'm least enthusiastic about this idea. We have http://irix7.com, http://techpubs.jurassic.nl etc. and all of these together do a fantastic, and I mean it, job of curating content and have a longer establishment on the web than we do. I am content to let them hold that niche currently, but I put it in here anyways because it may one day become a necessity.