From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GYNDH-0002pE-Sy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:36:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9DDZcDr005933; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:35:38 GMT Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9DDXiMg009183 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:33:45 GMT Received: from mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.22]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 13 Oct 2006 09:33:45 -0400 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id MJC11239; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:33:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 146-115-26-214.c3-0.abr-ubr1.sbo-abr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO [192.168.1.12]) ([146.115.26.214]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 13 Oct 2006 09:33:40 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.09,305,1157342400"; d="scan'208"; a="292694645:sNHT80448678" Message-ID: <452F95BF.8070704@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:33:51 -0400 From: Joshua Nichols User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060924) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Troubleshooters for Gentoo References: <20061012183457.GC26716@kfk4ever.com> In-Reply-To: <20061012183457.GC26716@kfk4ever.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A090203.452F9568.00CB,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=207.172.4.11, so=2006-05-09 23:27:51, dmn=5.2.113/2006-07-26 X-Archives-Salt: 63911584-73f4-4d96-a1be-e3179cfd4641 X-Archives-Hash: 299ecd265a64b78eb3c165df6916e26a Maurice van der Pot wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed in the past that a lot of people come to irc with problems > in some area (say networking) that are easy to solve just by first > asking a number of questions to identify the problem and then providing > the solution. > > I've always liked the way Microsoft put these troubleshooters in their > help files. While the content of Microsoft's troubleshooters probably > never really helped anyone, the format of a troubleshooter is in my > opinion one of the best ways to help people solve their own problems. > > Now I've hacked up a program that can create a troubleshooter from > specifications of questions and problems and their dependencies, but I'd > need to have some decent content to really make it useful for other > people. > > I think having a couple of Gentoo-specific troubleshooters would be a > great resource for new users (not just new to Gentoo, but new to Linux). > > I have a couple of questions: > > 1) Does this sound like a good idea? > > 2) Does anyone feel like pouring his/her troubleshooting skills into > content for my program? > > The program is still very immature (I skipped a lot of things that > weren't absolutely necessary for the program to show what it can do), > but that'll be fixed. > > When given proper input, it generates HTML files that you can click > through and that will hopefully lead you to (a solution to) your problem. > It has some sample content to show the format. > > Maurice. > > > http://griffon26.kfk4ever.com/~griffon26/troubleshooter-0.0.2.tar.bz2 > 43f0042c802ad5ddcdf2a4db671c41c8 *troubleshooter-0.0.2.tar.bz2 > > If I'm not mistaken, the kbase project was established to help with this type of information: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kbase/ -- Joshua Nichols Gentoo/Java Project Lead -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list