On Friday 23 January 2004 3:51 pm, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
* Paul W. Abrahams; <abrahams@acm.org> on 23 Jan, 2004 wrote:
I'd like to put forth a proposal to SuSE and the folks on this list (who obviously include knowledgeable SuSEers) that SuSE create a self-maintaining user knowledge base with the same structure as SuSE's own database. Users could contribute articles to it having the same structure (including, in particular, keywords) as those in SuSE's own database. It could be surrounded by as many disclaimers as desired that the knowledge is not in any way guaranteed by SuSE and SuSE is not responsible for the accuracy or correctness of the knowledge therein.
such a knowledge base exists why not join forces rather then recreating the wheel :-)
It does? Where? This list isn't it, for several reasons: there's no keyword search, there's lots of extraneous material in the postings, and the knowledge on a particular topic is spread over multiple postings. The problem with piggybacking directly on the SuSE database (if that's what you had in mind) is that SuSE would then have to take some responsibility for the contents. SuSE should have no more responsibility for the contents of the user database than it does for the contents of this list, since that responsibility would entail a lot of work. Paul Abrahams