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Date:      Sun, 6 Oct 1996 14:55:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/FAQ FAQ.sgml 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.961006145301.7499C-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1459.844614129@time.cdrom.com>

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On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Who guarantees then that the handbook will be maintained on a more
> > regular basis?
> 
> Nothing guarantees anything, but if I go purely by historical record
> then I think it's a more than reasonable bet that the Handbook will be
> maintained far more aggressively than the FAQ.

Also, maintaining a good FAQ is no fun.  It means camping out on
the questions list where the people most qualified to answer the
questions are invariably the same people who don't want to spend
time reading and responding.   This is where monitary incentives
are used in commercial ventures.

-john

== jfieber@indiana.edu ===========================================
== http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================




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