Re: [gentoo-dev] FAQ

[George Shapovalov <georges@its.caltech.edu>]

Hi

Good to see people wishing to spend their time on docs :-), no really!
Originally I was thinking in terms of individual submissions to bugzilla
listing that or other question which should be included in FAQ.
However since there seems to be quite a few people interested in getting
this done I suppose some coordination can help.

Hereby I announce a call for FAQ submissions.
Shortly I will submit a bug to bugs.gentoo.org and announce its number
here. Bugzilla is a nice place to collect independent submissions IMHO, as
it provides a minimalistic forum-like functionality. Please submit your
Qs&As there. Somebogy, who will volonteer will combine the
question into single <xml> file and will [try to] keep it up to date with
new submissions (quite likely that would be me,
unless somebody has an itch for editorial work :-). I willl wait few days and 
then assume this role if there are no volonteers). Regular builds of this 
file (2-3 day period in the beginning makes sense) will get attached to the 
same bug for an easy incorporation into existing documents.

George


On Friday 05 April 2002 10:27, you wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 01:15:49PM -0500, Sean Mitchell wrote:
> > Well, to be fair that FAQ is getting a little threadbare.
> >
> > Both lists seem to be getting a lot of repeated questions which aren't
> > addressed in the current FAQ. If someone wants to spend time contributing
> > then maybe that would cut down the volume on the lists.
>
> Indeed.
>
> How do 'we' contribute to the FAQ, I know I could send the XML to
> bugzilla, but I everybody sends a new XML there will be a *lot* of
> work for he who chooses to update the 'real' FAQ.
>
> Or just maybe certain persons have CVS access to that file and maybe
> one of theese would accept updates. That's better than he has to
> extract all updated from the various lists, no?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Regards,