Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 20:12:39 -0600 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Nik Clayton" <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: <jim@lust.geekhouse.net>, <doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: conspectus for FreeBSD-questions Message-ID: <000f01c04de0$5e5f70a0$0200000a@vladsempire.net> References: <000501c04996$46eaf820$0200000a@vladsempire.net> <20001108104523.A90012@envy.geekhouse.net> <003701c049bc$76e25e80$0200000a@vladsempire.net> <20001108152201.A522@envy.geekhouse.net> <012101c04a18$5ce117e0$0200000a@vladsempire.net> <20001109001032.B2961@envy.geekhouse.net> <00d901c04aac$9dd9c960$0200000a@vladsempire.net> <20001112152459.F1752@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Nik Clayton" <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: <jim@lust.geekhouse.net>; <doc@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 9:25 AM Subject: Re: conspectus for FreeBSD-questions > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:24:39PM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > I am thinking about a freebsd-questions FAQ, as in, please read before you > > post to freebsd-questions, not the general freebsd-FAQ. I think this would > > help to keep some of the redundant questions down....it would also give > > you/us another chance to put in the plea to please use a meaningful topic > > when you post and so on and so forth. > > Good idea. Didn't Greg Lehey post something like this to -questions on a > regular basis? > Greg usually sends a series of posts once a month with an update to The Complete FreeBSD, and some hints about how to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. Of course, only people subscribed to the list get this... What I am thinking is this...a lot of the questions to the questions list are repeated over and over...for instance, a while back the boot loader was having trouble finding usb keyboards on some athlon motherboards, so there were a bunch of "I can't get FreeBSD to install" sort of questions....or another instance, when 3.4 was out and 4.0 was released there was a bunch of confusion about what the largest IDE drive each version supported...and so forth. The sorts of things I am thinking of are transitory questions from the mailing list....permanent sorts of issues should go into the main FreeBSD-faq, but I think there could be a lot of benefit to having a questions-faq that was linked right next to the comment that seems to be in almost every FreeBSD documentation (whether in print or on-line) "send questions to free-bsd questions." Here's an example taken from the end of the handbook. For questions about FreeBSD, e-mail <questions@FreeBSD.org>. Now if that is all we tell people, why are we surprised when we get posts to questions that have been asked a million times before, or posts that have no subject...and so forth? If we had a questions-faq that we could link right next to that blurb in the handbook and elsewhere we could put in a little blurb about how best to post to questions, how to search the archives, and so forth, and even take a crack at answering their question before they ask. > > I pulled down the docproj port and all that....Are you thinking that I would > > modify the webpage that people use to access the conspectus? > > Ideally, yes. > > > If so I will > > need to throw some more drives in my FreeBSD box....I don't think I have the > > 600 megs free that it takes to build the webpages. > > Huh? > > The complete www/ CVS repository is 20MB. Checked out, it's less than 9.6MB. > I don't know where you got the 600MB figure from. > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/docproj-primer/the-website.html Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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