From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 4 4:12:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from laurasia.com.au (lauras.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.93.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C354F14D2B for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 04:12:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@laurasia.com.au) Received: (from mike@localhost) by laurasia.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA63509; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:12:04 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from mike) From: Michael Kennett Message-Id: <199910041112.TAA63509@laurasia.com.au> Subject: Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...) In-Reply-To: <19991004121636.L63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org> from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Oct 4, 1999 12:16:36 pm" To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:12:04 +0800 (WST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On a slight tangent, I've just gone back and reread Greg Lehey's 'How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions'. It's a great document, covering a lot of the etiquette for the freebsd-questions mailing list. It can be found at: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html However, the document doesn't really cover how 'newbies' (I hate that term :-) can find information for themselves. There is a huge amount of information on the internet -- too much, really -- and having a list of selected references could help people help themselves. This 'how-to-help-yourself' document wouldn't have to be long. But it could contain references to the FreeBSD handbook, the FAQ, and other stuff that people put together (eg. Gregs pages on vinum, Brian Somers pages on ppp, + many others), in addition to some general internet resources (eg. www.faqs.org), and general unix introductions. Ideally, this 'meta-FAQ' would only be a few pages in length. It's role would be as a quick signpost to material that people have found useful before. I just did a quick check on www.faqs.org, and there were *no* faqs posted for FreeBSD on that site (at least that I could find). I think it would certainly be worthwhile to have a FAQ listed on that site. I'd appreciate feedback on this. I'm willing to collate material and host such a FAQ (with the advance warning that I have *lousy* HTML skills:-). Please suggest any information or worthy sites that you think of. Looking forward to your comments, Mike 'forever-a-newbie-willing-to-learn' Kennett (mike@laurasia.com.au) Jeroen wrote: > [ snip good advice ] > > Now this is very good advice. > > I am certainly going to keep Darryl's comments somewhere for easy > reference in order to make sure I at least never forget where I came > from and how to treat others. > > I think everybody should heed this advice. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message