Server Set Up Guides: Can we do better?

[Drajor]

Heyas,

I wanted to start a discussion about how server set up guides are done/handled/maintained. My understanding of the current practice is that community members have written there own, published to forum/wiki and occasionally they get updated. Most guides are claim to be 'complete' and take the user from start to finish.

I am wondering if we can not come up with a better way to do this. For example a group of us could agree to make a 'master guide' which multiple people are responsible for. DB guys handle all the set up, possible errors. Coding people handle set up, compiling etc. Each step in the set up will have its own wiki page and the people involved will be responsible for maintaining their pages. If the workload for creation and maintainable is spread among a number of people then ideally we would be able to keep it up to date.

A special forum could be made for server set up and configuration where hopefully the folks responsible for maintenance will read and post.

In general I think there are too many guides and the result is just confusing. Ideally if this process was stream-lined we may encourage more people to make servers!