* Damon Register; <damon.w.register@lmco.com> on 16 Dec, 2002 wrote:
Damian Ohara wrote:
If the FAQ is wrong or incomplete then hammer on Togan's door with the correction/update. We agree to do the same.
You are more then welcomed :-)
I am planning to do that but before I do, I want to get all the facts straight so I can tell him what I would like to see changed. Isn't that reasonable? I want to get it workinging and learn why. Then I can edit his FAQ from a beginner's viewpoint. I believe that the beginner's viewpoint is needed in many FAQs or instructions. Beginners will have what they need and advanced users can just ignore what they already know.
Now to make things clear the document mentioned at http://dinamizm.ath.cx/articles/cdrip.html as it says so is provided by a member of this very list named Keith Winston. He has also provided many other documents. I can not test every document that comes as sometimes the topic is not in my interest area hoewever since I do see lots of questions on the topic I try to evaluate the answers based on my interpretation I include it either as a FAQ entry or as a document. Sometimes the link that the document is refering to is broken the server moved or it does not exits any more name it whatever you want. The only way I can update the Unofficial FAQ is when someone says the XYZ link is broken and here is the new location. Telling the link is broken does not help since I am not going to search where the link is now as per the reason maybe the topic is not in my interest area. That is why I have placed the project on Sourceforge and created trackers for Bugs =========== http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=439827&group_id=42064&func=browse Patches =============== http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=439829&group_id=42064&func=browse When this project started about a year ago there were so many people who offered to help in lots of ways including monitoring specific topics so they would be providing a complete Question and Answer for common topics. Result null, except a very few who helped like Keith. Almost everything is compiled from the mailinglist that means I have to follow the threads trying to figure out is there a solution or not and then get the QA included. Things can go much faster when I have a complete document that all I have to do is format it to Docbook and create the HTML, PDF and the rpms. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2001-Nov/2348.html started this project and just follow it and you will see what I mean. Consequently this has become a "one man show", it can only go into the direction that it should go meaning a proper document which has footprints everyone can follow. Yet this the biggest problem of every FAQ unless it is a joint effort. Readers will come to the point that FAQ's should be designed for the beginner and no FAQ exists yet well here is something for you then make it from the eyes of a beginner and either send it to me or place it as a patch/bug whatever at Sourceforge.net. I do not recall I have rejected a document as yet. Hope I have made things clearer now -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx