From owner-cvs-share Sun Oct 6 12:55:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-share Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA07099 for cvs-share-outgoing; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 12:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA07087; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 12:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09467; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 14:55:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 14:55:02 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Joerg Wunsch , 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 In-Reply-To: <1459.844614129@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ================