Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:41:07 -0400 From: "Marc Spitzer" <mspitzer@gmail.com> To: "Tom Rhodes" <trhodes@freebsd.org> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wiki style FAQ proposal Message-ID: <8c50a3c30805301341o3f78e173q2bda4d13be01830a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080528022942.75859b86.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <483C6E04.3070804@otenet.gr> <20080528.060009.127260270.hrs@allbsd.org> <483C7AD4.5090409@otenet.gr> <20080528.063631.13709725.hrs@allbsd.org> <483C83D1.40609@otenet.gr> <20080528030745.GD27463@soaustin.net> <20080528022942.75859b86.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2008 22:07:45 -0500 > linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote: > >> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:57:37AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> > In my opinion, the sgml FAQ should be limited to questions about the >> > project and maybe not so quickly changing technical stuff. >> >> This was my idea also the last time I looked at it (sigh) which appears >> to have been several years ago :-( > > With me at BSDCan actually. And I think we (or just I?) brought > the idea up with Murray. It never got off the ground sadly - > as have other efforts (see archives for my FAQ->Handbook patch) > and just a couple of weeks ago I was thinking of that FAQOMATIC. > > Then I was passed a work project and my desire to set one up > kind of bombed on me. > > -- > Tom Rhodes > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I am rather fond of the way posgres does there docs/faqs, you have a uneditable part for consumption and below there is an area for people to comment on the entry: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/index.html it gives the editors control over the official content and anybody who wants to the ability to comment on it. It also has the advantage of being a working system that we might be able to get for the asking. Thanks, marc ps back to lurking ;) -- Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. Albert Camus
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