[Xastir] Using Github Discussions when xastir.org is down, among other things

[Tom Russo]

The virtual machine where this mailing list and the Xastir wiki live
at xastir.org has been having a lot of trouble lately.  Curt keeps
kicking it and waking it up again, but it is not reliable.  A replacement
VM is in the works, but Curt is looking for help managing it.  

Since so much of our knowledge base lives at that wiki, and some of our users
are still using this email list, that means we've got a bit of an issue.

In the meantime, since this mailing list is not reliably delivering
messages to users, the Discussions tab on our GitHub repository is a good
place for users to pop in, participate in discussions, and ask questions.

And of course, reporting bugs is ideally done at in the Issues tab of the 
repo as well.  If you're interested in contributing fixes, well, those
would be really welcome.

I have been working to put new documentation up on the GitHub wiki, though
it is a daunting task and I've barely scratched the surface.  It is even
harder when I don't have the xastir.org wiki to crib off of.

Further, even when xastir.org is up, a lot of the information there is 
outdated.  Our "Installation Notes" document how to get Xastir running on
systems that nobody uses anymore, mapping resource pages point at dead links.
Even some of the core pages still refer folks to Bob Bruninga's web pages at
the US Naval Academy.

If anyone would like to help reboot Xastir's documentation by helping to
populate the GitHub wiki, please hop on to GitHub and participate in 
discussions.  I could use a hand, especially with documenting how to 
use Xastir in ways I never do, such as with more modern equipment than a PC 
and an old-school hardware TNC (looking at you, Direwolf users).

Ultimately, I'm looking at the possibility of replacing some of the outdated
pages on the xastir.org wiki with links to the Github wiki, where it is
much easier to maintain and get updates from the community.

If you are able to volunteer to help Curt in his efforts to administer 
xastir.org and have good Linux systems administration skills, please post
to the Discussions to volunteer.

Github repo: https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir
Issues:      https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues
Discussions: https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/discussions
Wiki:        https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/wiki

There has been a lot of work getting done in the Xastir code base over the
last couple of months, and hopefully we should be able to push out a good
release of version 2.2.4 sometime fairly soon.  Hopefully with a good set of
updated user documentation as well.

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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