Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:16:07 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chainsawing the "Mouse" section of the FAQ Message-ID: <20030410141607.GB95802@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <ezadezmqrs.dez@localhost.localdomain> References: <20030408112740.A83997@blackhelicopters.org> <ezadezmqrs.dez@localhost.localdomain>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:09:43PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > "Michael W . Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> writes: > > Any comments? > > Sure. Your considerable talents would be better spent on the FreeBSD > Handbook. The FAQ should be a delete-only document. The sooner it rots > away, the better. It's upkeep involves a duplication of effort that is > worse than useless, as it tends to force FreeBSD users to have to hunt > for information in an extra place for information that is not > necessarily any more helpful than what the Handbook (or an Article) has > (or should have). It's bad enough that the FDP has to duplicate so much > of what xfree86.org has on mouse configuration, but that's given the > existance and nature of "moused", I guess there's no alternative to > that. Hmm. I quite like the idea of the FAQ merging in to the Handbook. Each chapter starts with a "Synopsis" section -- there's no reason why they couldn't end with a "FAQ" section. If we wanted a separate FAQ document, it could be generated by pulling out all the FAQ sections from the Handbook. N -- 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 --- .\._/_) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+lXynk6gHZCw343URAiSrAJ9OU65zdCOijoGfm54O9j1fQYxW1QCfWvTb mQIPi1nqLWPrzT77H7Yxub0= =w5Dv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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