Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:22:03 +0000 From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: splitting FAQ ch. 9 Message-ID: <20020120152203.GA1077@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <20020119220019.GA69416@helios.dub.net> References: <20020117110921.B32325@blackhelicopters.org> <20020118030554.GC17795@freebsdmall.com> <20020118211213.J2208@holly.calldei.com> <20020119045555.GA57083@helios.dub.net> <20020119081751.A44161@blackhelicopters.org> <20020119220019.GA69416@helios.dub.net>
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:00:19PM -0800, Jim Mock wrote: > > Well, part of the problem with that is that people don't seem to read > the FAQ either. It's just gotten too big, and if you don't know where > something is, you've got to look through the whole thing anyway. > > For example, I was just looking for the entry about updating to the > latest -STABLE and getting -RC so I could bookmark it to beat the > newbies who are too lazy to read the FAQ with it when it's asked 400 > times in #FreeBSD (on Undernet). It's in the system administration > section of the FAQ. That was the 4th place I looked. It's not exactly > easy to find things if you don't know where they are :-) Do we currently do anything with the <indexterm> elements ? Perhaps overhauling search.cgi to score on these terms would be an advantage, as imho it's currently nearly useless. Having search.cgi return a few lines of context would be good too. WAIS is deep magic as far as I'm concerned, so I can't comment on how easy these tasks would be. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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