Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:47:08 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating an Admin Handbook Message-ID: <20040720154707.GB64597@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20040720140759.GA69951@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20040719100354.GA90972@hub.freebsd.org> <20040720103432.GA64597@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20040720104501.GB5405@hub.freebsd.org> <20040720124337.GA8096@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20040720140759.GA69951@abigail.blackend.org>
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--bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:07:59PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > of Handbook and FAQ. > Why FAQ is not really used/read? It's difficult to answer to that > question but I assume cause it's less "famous" and cause the human being > is lazy, it's an effort to go read the Handbook, so switching to the FAQ > is too much :)=20 I've said it before, I'll say it again -- the FAQ needs to die. =20 In the same way that each chapter has a "Synopsis", each chapter should have a FAQ section, at the end of the chapter, containing relevant content scooped out from the existing FAQ. Production of a master-FAQ, containing all the FAQ content from the Handbook(s) would then be possible. I had grand plans for this a few years ago. Then, inexplicably, I went and got a life, and free time plummeted. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA/T57k6gHZCw343URApe4AJ42UB5b45CoMJ+9+GBz9EJsgxZ/8QCfUtrh kYRWGWxMZ5Ez4jfwUKUQk94= =hb0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE--
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