Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Mate wiki page

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:57:53 +0100
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:45:56 +0100, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi List!
> 
> First of all, Mate seems to be a promissing way to provide some higher
> level analysing stuff IMHO.
I've been using it for a while with a certain degree of success on
different areas, anyway it would had been silly if *I* hadn't. :-)

> As I've looked at the Mate wiki pages to understand what I have to do,
> some things should be fixed there:
As well as in Mate, there are some issues I've found blocking with the
simplistic apporach I took for GoGs, I'll rewrite the GoP analysys
part of mate soon. I'll put down a functional spec for the new GoG and
submit it to the list soon.

> - How should Mate be spelled? I've found three different ways:
> Mate/mate/MATE. We should only use one of these and I would prefer MATE
so MATE will be, most have being changed already.

> - I've added a proposal how a new http://wiki.ethereal.com/Mate "MATE
> homepage" could look like. I would rename the current homepage to
> Mate/Manual and remove the parts I've copied to my proposal

I think that's right, there's just a "little" issue:
The last time I renamed a page I lost its attachments.

> - A basic outline how Mate works is missing and should be added to
> Mate/Manual. There seems to be a collecting phase, an analysis phase...
> IMHO this would clarify the understanding what's going on a lot.

I'll try to write it down.

> - The http://wiki.ethereal.com/Mate_2fTesting page might be renamed to
> GettingStarted or alike, and it should explain how to setup a first time
> test (where to place the plugin, the configuration file(s) and such)
I think GettingStarted is OK

> - I've marked some things with XXX in
> http://wiki.ethereal.com/Mate_2fTesting, could someone fill in useful info?
I'll take a look

> - although the navigation at the top of some of the pages is helpful,
> this makes it hard to maintain, so I would prefer to remove it
I've been wandering around this dilemma for a while :)