From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Sep 30 09:25:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26963 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:25:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.mbc-nsc.com ([204.193.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26958 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:25:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rayseals@midwestis.com) Received: by firewall.mbc-nsc.com; id LAA06122; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:21:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown(172.16.30.26) by firewall.mbc-nsc.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma006058; Wed, 30 Sep 98 11:21:34 -0400 From: "Ray Seals" To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: "Freebsd-Advocacy" Subject: RE: On-line Help Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:25:59 -0500 Message-ID: <000f01bdec8f$0215bf20$1a1e10ac@rseals.midwestis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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