Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 13:12:27 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Installation Guide Project Message-ID: <3709192B.D6E6F586@uswest.net> References: <3706CA33.986B5C15@uswest.net>; <19990405115047.Q2142@lemis.com> <19990405035957.DOSU5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> <19990405133944.Y2142@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Monday, 5 April 1999 at 15:58:55 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 5 Apr 99, at 11:50, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > >>>> Stay the course, Darren. Talk to the -newbies and ignore the crabby, > >>>> jaded ones who've forgotten what it's like not to have a clue about > >>>> BSD. :-D > >>> > >>> I plan on soliciting for volunteers in -newbies. I just want to have > >>> some kind of a webpage up for them to read before waving the Uncle Sam > >>> posters. > >> > >> It seems fashionable at the moment to believe that newbies can do > >> things that experienced people can't, simply because they're closer to the > >> problem. I have yet to see a really successful document come out of this > >> approach. I've found it a lot easier to let experienced people write the > >> documentation and have newbies review it to death. > > > > But that's what is proposed. Letting newbies review it. > > Ah, then I misunderstood. > > > As for successful documents, and this is tongue in cheek for the > > humourless, some people, myself included, consider my website a > > success. And whilst I am a newbie with respect to FreeBSD, I'm not > > new to the computer field. I think it's horses for courses. > > Yes, I agree, your web site is a success. But it's not exactly > documentation, at least not the way I understand that Darren wants to > do it. > > > I'm all for experienced people writing documents. But, clearly, > > nobody has stepped forward before this IGP was started. Otherwise, > > we'd already have the IG. > > Right. I had intended to overhaul exactly this part of the handbook, > but beyond writing a "what to download" section for review far too > long ago now (http://www.lemis.com/handbook/what-to-download.html), I > haven't done anything. As I said before, I'm not discussing whether > it should be done, just how. I think most of the discussion has been over misunderstandings of my intentions. I'm not surpised at that, many people don't understand me. :-) If I can get over this damned infection, I hope to have a web-page ready to send to DW by the end of the week. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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