On Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:17, Mark Miller wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 23:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I would like to gather some community opinion about which areas > > need attention more than others, so I can help guide the item > > writers. > > Excellent initiative Alan! I would tell people not to give > examples of any actual items but focus on the objectives for > comment. I've just sent you my wish list moments before this showed > up on my screen! > > > I know that topic 108 (Documentation) was recently discussed > > here, and could use some more items. > > 108 is a very thin objective. I'd avoid it unless you have some > great insight into a better way to approach the issue.
No I don't unfortunately. 108 has a weight of 8, and considering the amount of RTFM/STFW/Did you even bother to read the man page? type answers that appear on tech forums, that's probably about the correct emphasis. I'd like to see high quality items on 108, and was hoping the subscribers here had an idea or three. > > > Scanning my eye down the list of topics I > > see: > > > > Topic 101: Hardware and Architecture > > Some items on newish USB devices. Configuring USB mouses comes up > > on my local LUG tech lists often > > We have a lot on USB devices actually. Perhaps some ideas on how to > troubleshoot a balky device? If people have any real life examples > that would be very helpful. You just gave me an idea - I can pull archives of LUG tech posts and make them available to the writers. That gives a treasure-trove of problems, solutions and reasons. > > Topic 105: Kernel > > 2.6 is still relatively new. Are we accepting items on 2.6 yet? > > Most topics allow for a kernel neutral question. If there are areas > that are specific to any kernel I would encourage you to see if it > can be written in a more generic form or if that is now possible to > state explicitly what kernel this is referring to in the item. On reflection, any version-specific item can always be worked around to be less specific. alan > > Great start! Anyone else have suggestions? -- Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] +27 82 337 1935 (C) +27 86 110 2411 (W) +27 12 349 9277 (F) _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
