Wiki style FAQ proposal

Marc Spitzer mspitzer at gmail.com
Fri May 30 21:07:32 UTC 2008


On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2008 22:07:45 -0500
> linimon at 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
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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 ;)
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