I'm suggesting the following layout:
Title (brief description / the content suggested)
- Using of CHDK Firmwares
- CHDK Firmware Releases (announces; where to download; features description; firmware-related problems)
- Help and Assistance on using CHDK firmwares (general questions: how to install, use; which settings are better; general problems; camera-related problems; etc.)
- Script Writing (questions about current supported syntax; user-written scripts; script writing assistance; camera-related nuances)
- RAW shooting and processing (working_with_RAW-related problems: how to copy; how to process; best post-processing settings and so on)
- CHDK Development
- General Discussion and Assistance (how to setup the environment and compilation issues; dumping the firmware; discovering a new features; bug reports) (some of this questions can be separated as a child board, but not to a dedicated sub-forum)
- Feature Requests (no comment:))
- Lounge (let it be untouced)
- General Chat
- Forum related issues
I think this makes the most sense of all so far. People aren't putting posts in the right place because it's far too confusing. And even with that many places sometimes there's still not a good place for some posts. (Even I put posts in the wrong place because of permissions problems with this account, or because none of the ones listed made any sense, originally.)
And could we please stop referring to CHDK as firmware too? It's not firmware. It's not anything like firmware. It's a firmware overlay if anything. A firmware add-on. A firmware interface, etc. Using the term firmware implies someone is going to destroy their camera by loading it or void some warranty or something. Every section here refers to CHDK as firmware. The only firmware references should be to those that are inside the camera. (as has been done all along)
I'd edit that layout like this (edits in teal color):
- Using CHDK
- CHDK Releases (announces; where to download; features descriptions; CHDK-related problems)
- Help and Assistance on using CHDK versions (general questions: how to install, use; which settings are better; general problems; camera-related problems; etc.)
- Script Writing (questions about current supported syntax; user-written scripts; script writing assistance; camera-related nuances)
- RAW shooting and processing (working_with_RAW-related problems: how to copy; how to process; best post-processing settings and so on)
- Creative Uses of CHDK (report a new way to use an existing feature, new discoveries of old features, etc.)
- CHDK Development
- General Discussion and Assistance (how to setup the environment and compilation issues; dumping the firmware;
discovering a new features; bug reports) (some of this questions can be separated as a child board, but not to a dedicated sub-forum) - Feature Requests (no comment:)) PLEASE USE THE SEARCH FEATURE FIRST!
- Lounge (let it be untouced)
- General Chat
- Forum related issues
Comments? I may have missed some good suggestions from the past when thinking about this. acseven suggested that some forums be "read only". I strongly disagree with that. You never know when or where a good idea might come from. Take for example the thread where I noticed the idea to have the ability to save individual config files, someone expounded on that by calling that "Save Presets" (a good idea). Had I been reading a forum where I couldn't interject that thought at the moment it came to me the idea would be gone. (maybe some authors wish it would
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