From owner-freebsd-doc Sat May 25 16:54: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACD537B407; Sat, 25 May 2002 16:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b176.otenet.gr [212.205.244.184]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4PNrluW021806; Sun, 26 May 2002 02:53:47 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4PNrkFM034620; Sun, 26 May 2002 02:53:46 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4PNrjYi034610; Sun, 26 May 2002 02:53:45 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 02:53:44 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Cc: chris@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A Known Problems List? (was Re: Document not found - [snip]) Message-ID: <20020525235343.GA33785@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020525233430.GB31133@hades.hell.gr> <20020525234156.76908.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020525234156.76908.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-05-25 16:41, Hiten Pandya wrote: > --- Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > Good Idea, but, how would the users know that there is PR filed for this > > > purpose? perhaps by using the newsflash? > > > > By reading the Gnats index over the Web, of course ;-) > > OK. But would everyone go through this index just for knowing that a problem > he/she is trying to report is already listed under a PR? So, we can put a > PR, and also add a newsentry which points people to this PR. > > But if you and -doc team thinks that just looking over the index is fine then > I will keep my mouth shtum. :-) No, not really, not always. But we can afford a few duplicate posts, instead of having to maintain an index similar to this: - Links on the web site. The links on the web site tend to be broken if one visits the pages from, ... which will be an index in itself, very similar to the open PRs index. If the users don't spend time to check the PR index for documentation, they probably won't check that other index either ;) -- Giorgos Keramidas - http://www.FreeBSD.org keramida@FreeBSD.org - The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message