From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: howto and faq Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:05:13 +0000 Message-ID: <47AECC59.1020808@dgreaves.com> References: <20080207164249.GA7116@rap.rap.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080207164249.GA7116@rap.rap.dk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Keld_J=F8rn_Simonsen?= Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Keld J=F8rn Simonsen wrote: > I am trying to get some order to linux raid info. Help appreciated :) > The list description at > http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-raid > does list af FAQ, http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/ Yes, that should be amended. Drop them a line about the FAQ too > So our FAQ info is pretty out of date. I think it would be nice to ha= ve > a wiki like we have for the Howto. This would mean that we have much > better means to let new people make their mark, and avoid the problem > that we have today with really outdated info. There seems to be no point in having separate wikis for the FAQ and HOW= TO elements of documentation. Especially since a lot of FAQs are "How do I= "... by definition the answer is a HOWTO. > So can we put up a wiki somewhere for this, or should we just extend = the > wiki howto pages to also include a faq section? So just extend the existing wiki. > For the howto, I have asked the VGER people to add info to our list > description, that we have a wiki howto at http://linux-raid.osdl.org/ ta. I set the wiki up at osdl to ensure that if a bus hit me then Neil or o= thers would have a rational and responsive organisation to go to to change ow= nership. I've been writing to some of the other FAQ/Doc organisations sporadical= ly for over a year now and had no response from any of them. It's a very poor = aspect of OSS... David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html