= Wiki To-do list = Please describe error and omissions in the BOINC documentation here. {{{ #!comment Add new items at the end of the appropriate section. If you don't know what section is best, just add it at the end of the page. Don't delete existing items unless you're marking them as done! Please keep the bulleted list format. Note that you must have a space before the asterisk. }}} == Missing information (or requests for documentation) == #missing * ~~Where is the format of `global_prefs.xml`? I want to link it from ClientSim#input_sim_prefs. I see many pages with related info, I don't know which one is right or correct: PrefsImpl, GlobalPrefs (doesn't show XML format), PrefsOverride, and bottom of ClientFiles.~~ * These pages are updated. Please will someone double-check before removing this and PrefsOverride below? * It may be useful to have a new page (MigratingServers) explaining how to migrate a BOINC project to a new server. * The information in the Crashes section on ReportBugs is extremely Windows-centric. It would be great to have it expanded for other operating systems. * The build instructions for UNIX kind of lack a pointer to all the help that Linux distributions give in this respect. These come with complete build environments and, i.e., Debian provides packages for BOINC's clients and developers experiment for such for servers http://wiki.debian.org/BOINC/Server. * I strongly disagree about making a boinc-server package. If setting up a server involves just typing {{{apt-get install boinc-server}}}, [more] people who don't really know what they're doing will do it. == Out of date information == #out-of-date * Implementation notes are most '''very''' outdated. * An updated ClientApp may help create a library to allow [JavaApps Java applications] on BOINC; basically porting the BOINC API to Java. * DebugClientWin is mostly obsoleted by the built-in debug dump. * SecurityIssues should be checked when 6.0 is out and about. Certainly the part on sandboxing. * ClientApp and CompileClient point to Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. The new links point exclusively to the 2008 version. Has anyone tested building BOINC or apps with the 2008 version? * Having burned Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition to DVD I found it cannot be installed on any Windows version below XP. So for compatibility reasons, should we even link to the 2008 version? (I have for now added links pointing back to the correct download page for VS 2005 EE) == Minor corrections == #minor * ~~JobIn needs similar work to BackendState: reformatting using headings instead of that table mess~~. I reformatted JobIn using [WikiFormatting#DefinitionLists definition lists]. I think it looks better than with [WikiFormatting#Headings headings], but we can't link to individual attributes... * Broken link http://boinc.berkeley/edu/trac/wiki/WorkShop07/Summary to the proceedings of The Third Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop (News archive, September 26, 2007). * Broken links for all downloads on http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ws_07/ == Misc == #misc * PythonMysql had been converted from [/install_python_mysqldb.txt the original .txt]. I recently "wikified" the page, since it was just plaintext copied verbatim. It probably needs some cleanup, and checking if the information on it is still correct. * ''Answer: With recent distributions you won't need this page anymore. I always used the stable packages (usually: python-mysqldb) provided by each distro and got no problems. ChristianB'' * Other pages need to be updated to say Python DB can just be installed that way. * Would it make sense to move DevProjects stuff into Trac tickets marked as 'Task'? * Seconded. * Why not use the [/dev/index.php BOINCDev forums] for that? We're already moving DevProjects stuff into Trac where necessary, but the forums are already there and at times used for such things. It would be great if the developers used them more. == Pages Tagged for Attention == #tags You can tag pages for further action with the following tags: '''wiki_todo''', '''wiki_cleanup''', '''wiki_delete''' and '''image_todo'''. === Pages needing attention (wiki_todo) === [[ListTagged(wiki_todo, showheadings=false, tagspace=wiki)]] === Pages needing wiki cleanup (wiki_cleanup) === [[ListTagged(wiki_cleanup, showheadings=false, tagspace=wiki)]] === Pages pending deletion (wiki_delete) === [[ListTagged(wiki_delete, showheadings=false, tagspace=wiki)]] === Images needing attention (image_todo) === [[ListTagged(image_todo, showheadings=false, tagspace=wiki)]] == Not the Wiki == #not-wiki * minor correction [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php project list] about date of LHC first turn-up - according to [http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2007/PR06.07E.html this press release] the machine will not "see" first-light until May of next year. * favicon uses an old logo version that lacks transparency. * The "add it to the wiki to-do list" should be an absolute URL. The link is broken on some pages.