[ On Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 14:44:29 (-0700), Craig Saunders wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: What is Cederqvist?
>
> You are the "old-timer" that I referred to. And as I recall, you did
> not use the full name of the manual...
<sarcasm>
what was that I said about using "the CVS manual" again!?!?!?!!?
</sarcasm>
> Furthermore, I would have initiated and kept an FAQ of the form you now suggest
> if I hadn't been shot down in flames. (It's about the level of contribution I could
> commit to since I'm not as good as other contributors at bit twiddling.)
If I recall correctly the majority of information that it seemed you
were interested in documenting was stuff that really really really
needed to go in the manual.
It's bad enough that people publish bits of good documentation on their
web pages instead of submitting it for inclusion in the manual. Having
a FAQ document that includes such information, even one posted to this
forum, is still a far less than ideal way to provide technical
documentation to those who require it.
Meanwhile 99.9% of the "frequent" questions I see posted are already
clearly documented in the CVS manual, and the remainder are there but
perhaps not clear enough or easy enough to find.
BTW, although I believe exactly what I say above, I was definitely not
the first to say it....
> Normally, I keep my whining to myself but this was an opportunity
> to demonstrate that you need to consider how your public comments
> are received. If you had made a positive comment, or at least tried to
> figure out why I made the suggestion in the first place, we would already
> have an FAQ.
If you really wanted to write a FAQ you would have. Nothing I or anyone
else says or does can prevent you from publishing whatever you wish, in
any public forum you wish, including this one.
As a result it would seem to me that you must have agreed with what has
been said on the relative lack of utility of any FAQ on this subject!
--
Greg A. Woods
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