+1. Before we do this, can we list which FAQ's will remain, and which will be removed?
Ryan On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > Proposal: Remove essentially all the questions/answers from the 2.0 FAQ. > Leave only perhaps half a dozen of the most general questions. Add a > reference at the top of the FAQ telling people to look in the 1.3 FAQ for > questions that are not answered in the 2.0 FAQ. > > Reason: > > - The 1.3 FAQ is borderline unmanageable, both from a maintainer and a user > perspective. It just has too much stuff in it. It will be almost > impossible to highlight important 2.0 FAQs because of all the garbage left > over from 1.3. > > - A large number of questions in the 1.3 FAQ will be obsolete in 2.0 > either because > a) The features have changed in 2.0 > b) The issues no longer exist (eg. broken libraries, etc) > c) The issue has been documented elsewhere. > > - On the last point, the FAQ has become somewhat of a documentation > crutch. Instead of properly fixing the documentation to address important > issues in context, the FAQ has been used as a "quick fix". I think the > documentation is improving to the point where this is less necessary, and > hopefully it will improve further in the future. > > Opinions? > > Joshua. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
