On Friday 23 January 2004 22:07, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 23 January 2004 4:56 pm, Michael Yartsev wrote:
Good idea, you might want to try joining forces with the already existant database.
The problem with simply allowing users to add to the existing database is, as I noted in another post, SuSE's responsibility and therefore the extra work they'd have to do. A parallel database, with the same structure, avoids that problem and does piggyback on the work SuSE has done to create the structure and supporting software for their own database.
You would always have to appoint a moderator... otherwise, you'd end up with having a Usenet feed in that database. Or another form of a mailing list, because lots of people would jump in to comment, add worthless information, etc. And that's a lot of work.
Perhaps a SuSEr would like to comment on how someone from SuSE goes about adding an article to the SuSE database.
Paul Abrahams