Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:56:58 +0100 (MET) From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: cracauer@cons.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding all the user-supplied databases Message-ID: <9701302056.AA24140@wavehh.hanse.de> In-Reply-To: <14400.854656180@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 30, 97 12:29:40 pm
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> > > 1) Some sort of FAQ database. While the main FAQ can be kept tight, > > the idea is to have a database of FAQ submission that can be searched > > An interesting idea, but perhaps too ambitious to start with. This has been discussed by a group of people already. Actually, my first idea was to make this a simple mailing list anyone can send their submission to, maybe moderated. The main goal, to provide a place where people can be sure to find solutions (as opposed to discussion) for a given problem, would be reached by this simple solution. But it lacks update and followup possibilities. > > 2) Commercial entries should be editable by the responsible parties > > (once someone approved the company is serious and gave them a passwd > > or such). > > I agree. The originator should be assigned a key. > > > 3) FreeBSD-related projects should have pages that can be changed by > > outside people. See www.netbsd.org for an example project page. > > Yes, this would be be nice indeed and possibly a good starter project. > Anyone approached NetBSD for their stuff? :-) Last time I submitted something, it was a wetware driven page :-) The key point is that all three tacks reduce to the same software problem. WWW pages feeded from a database, either as complete listing or selected by search. The database should accept submissions, either by anyone (FAQ, maybe projects) or by a maintainer (commercials) and assign a passwd for the submitter so he can change or remove his/her submission later. Depending on the kind of database, people can submit followups (FAQ, maybe projects) and get a passwd assigned as well. As I think over it, GNATS has a lot of work done in this direction already. Mumble, time for RTFM... Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> http://cracauer.cons.org Fax +49 40 522 85 36
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