From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 19:24:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF0516A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:24:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mbox.ibctech.ca (dev.eagle.ca [209.167.58.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B9F43D5A for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:24:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steveb@eagle.ca) Received: (qmail 30627 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Jul 2004 19:24:15 -0000 Received: from steveb@eagle.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamscan: 0.73. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 1.029972 secs); 20 Jul 2004 19:24:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webmail.ibctech.ca) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.ibctech.ca with SMTP; 20 Jul 2004 19:24:14 -0000 Received: from 209.167.16.15 (SquirrelMail authenticated user steve@ibctech.ca); by webmail.ibctech.ca with HTTP; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:24:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4511.209.167.16.15.1090351454.squirrel@209.167.16.15> In-Reply-To: <20040720150950.41fcce9e@localhost> References: <20040720154707.GB64597@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <4235.209.167.16.15.1090349232.squirrel@209.167.16.15> <20040720150950.41fcce9e@localhost> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:24:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bertrand" To: "Tom Rhodes" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating an Admin Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:24:17 -0000 > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:47:12 -0400 (EDT) > "Steve Bertrand" wrote: > >> > I don't know if I agree with merging all the content of the FAQ >> > into the handbook, but I _will_ agree that the FAQ needs to die. >> > It is a complete grab-bag of 'stuff' and as such is pretty close >> > to unreadable. >> > >> > A completely cool project would be to find something that would >> > allow us to grind up the contents of the FAQ, the release notes, >> > the hardware support info in the (4) manpages, and probably other >> > things that I'm forgetting, and spit them out as a knowledge base. >> > >> > Does anyone here know of any other Open Source project that is >> > doing something like that? >> >> How about a wiki. Spamassassin uses one, and it seems quite intuitive. >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ >> >> Steve > > Stupid PHP based faq-o-matic things. Heh. Thanks for the very informative, enlightening and insightful reply to a simple suggestion. Makes for a great discussion, doesn't it? Or is this just a hint that only highly-qualified and extremely experienced persons are allowed to suggest anything here? ...zzzzip ;o) Steve > > -- > Tom Rhodes > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >