Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:28:06 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hi Message-ID: <877i3gk7ah.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20090223160951.056f54d1@scorpio> (Jerry's message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:09:51 -0500") References: <9ef7e7380902220154t74657d52uc9497c77672b79f8@mail.gmail.com> <9a52b1190902220711u65e38320t97ca56547bef246d@mail.gmail.com> <87ljryccm0.fsf@kobe.laptop> <49a20440.oqh9j8d04xp6dYo8%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <87mycd847c.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20090223195041.GC58188@kokopelli.hydra> <20090223160951.056f54d1@scorpio>
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:09:51 -0500, Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> wrote: > Specifically, what is it we are uncomfortable putting in the handbook? > More importantly, what good is a handbook if it is not complete? That's one way of looking at it. The obsessive compulsive perfectionist perspective is that a Handbook is *never* complete, because by the time you have finished writing about something in a professional, clean and amusing to read manner, it has been superseded by recent advances :-) > Would the documentation be cross indexed so a user could find more > details on a particular subject? Personally, while perfectly > plausible, it sounds like more work than it is worth. The cross-indexing bits are what made me think about our Wiki while pondering how to write this sort of stuff. I will experiment by writing in plain text first, wikifying bits and pieces later, and see where this leads me.
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