Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:44:28 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ReadMe files Message-ID: <20000305114428.B62310@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <00b101bf86a9$101d3d90$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:45:20PM %2B1000 References: <00b101bf86a9$101d3d90$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:45:20PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > Who is responsible for the ReadMe files on the FreeBSD FTP site?? > My reason for asking is a problem I had that could have easily been > avoided with a couple extra lines of explanation in a particular ReadMe. > I'm aware of a number of associates who have experienced the exact > same problem but haven't persisted in the search for answers as much > as I have. I'm certain that many of the regular questions posted to the > various mailing lists could be avoided if there was a mechanism to > provide more explicit information on potential areas of confusion, thus > reducing the number of "trivial" questions posted to the mailing lists. > The manual & the Complete FreeBSD do a very good job in many > areas, but unfortunately there will always be issues that aren't covered > explicitly enough for newbies, and its obviously a waste of resources > for the experts to spend time answering questions that could have been > avoided had sufficient information been provided elsewhere in a readily > visible form. Feel free to join and participate in the freebsd-doc@freebsd.org maillist. You can send your suggestions there. If you have specific issues or changes, feel free to fill out a PR (send-pr(1)) with the "Category" marked as 'docs' and the "Class" a 'doc-bug'. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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