Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:58:34 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: doc "renovation" project volunteer Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980318223140.316G-100000@barnowl.roost.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980318181025.10998A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Annelise Anderson wrote: > Just a quick note (it's tax time in America and I am supposed to > be calculating some weird thing): How much we didn't make last year. > --I don't think there's any vision of what FreeBSD documentation > ought to look like in, say, a year or two...maybe the manual pages/FAQ/ > handbook/other stuff as needed is okay, then again maybe before a lot of > work is done we ought to consider where we would like to go (Jordan has > a MiniFaq on Usenet) Sue Blake has also posted about her confusion on this as well. I guess I'm one of those latecomers sliding in. I agree with you both. A vision of where this is to go and an overall collaborative authority are necessary for success. Shall we talk about this? The documents must deal first and foremost with the needs of a new user. One who does not know much other that they want to try FreeBSD. The documentation as it stands now did not help me when I started with 2.1.5 (downloaded and installed from dos partition). FreeBSD is free but I've had to make a $400 investment in books to do what I want with it. This is not good. This needs to be fixed and I want to help. <snip> > > --There seems not to be anyone in charge, who functions as the > interface between the core team and the rest of the world and has enough > authority to make some decisions. Right, and there must be or there will be a bigger, faster version of the same thing. Thanks to everyone who is participating in this. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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