Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:25:59 -0500 From: "Ray Seals" <rayseals@midwestis.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: "Freebsd-Advocacy" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: On-line Help Message-ID: <000f01bdec8f$0215bf20$1a1e10ac@rseals.midwestis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809300853240.308-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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The fact that they have a wider appeal means that they get a lot more questions asked about stuff that we probably take for common knowledge. Look at what they have answered and duplicate those subjects. > Even that requires manpower. > > Tutorials do get written. FAQs do get written. The handbook does get > written. The book does get published. All of these documents include > "HOWTO" documentation. > > More documentation is always a good thing, but it requires manpower. > > I fail to see that an entirely new an independent documentation effort is > necessary. There is already a framework in place for the submission of > documentation. This current framework only requires manpower. > > I do agree that there is some difficulty in the indexing all of the > documentation. This problem is common to the entire net. When I can't find > what I am looking for in the provided indexes, I use the website search > engine. If it's on the website, I'll find it. I understand the manpower issue and I'm not proposing a new effort. I'm just as guilty as a lot of people are when it comes to contributing. I know the Jordan and many others are constantly asked "What can I do". That is the focus of my message. We all have to work through problems getting something to work on a FreeBSD box. If you found a Linux HOWTO page that helped you out (maybe you had to change a few things) re-write the thing for FreeBSD and submit it. Ray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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