On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:46:11PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:16:08PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:51:45PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > > Here's my first cut of questions that ought to be in a debian-users FAQ: > > > > if only someone had this started up when i was getting > > As you no doubt have seen from the list, they did. I'd lost track of > it long ago (http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/), but it was helpful when > I saw it. It does need more promotion on debian-users though.
i've known about the current faq... i get the impression someone got off to a good start with a 'user-centric' approach, and then got lost in the quagmire of 'structure it the way the developers think about it'. i have no truck with any of its contents; it's just not conducive to a newbie, who's looking for an answer to a certain question or issue, to learn what she needs to learn. > Lots of your items were good ones, and we should see if they can be > incorporated, or if they need to be (I've no idea how current the > original version is; have to go over it again). one thing's for certain -- the FOM (faq-o-matic) is waaaay out of date. (how to upgrade to hamm, for example.) > I'll keep following this thread and decide what to do about it in a few > days. i'd love to see some activity from the general user community on this issue. the official web and documentation folks are quite busy, and i think we'd have a better shot at gearing it towards 'the newbies we were last month' than they would, anyway...