Dude that would totally kick butt, a Linux howto search
engine!
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Mark Johnson wrote:
> It seems there is a lot of personal knowledge locked up in a vast amount of
> heads just here on this list. Significant trivia that just passes day in and
> day out you can't really concentrate on all the postings because they don't
> immediately concern you but later, like a year from now, you'll be like:
> "hey, I'd like to change my X cursors." Then you have to either wade
> through all your email or web archives searching for that final posting that
> resolves the "how-to" problem. HOW-TOs are great; however, a little rought
> to digest sometimes and but not always helpful.
>
> It seems like by leveraging perl or python and the rpmfind.net mechanism we
> could build an infrastructure to capture all this know-how and create "guru"
> utilities that formally gather and try all the diagnostics gleaned from
> input from the collective consciouness within the Linux community and the
> HOW-TOs and etc. This would probably be a monumental undertaking, but it
> seems like that is what Linux is all about. Basically, if we could automate
> (kind of like the ./configure process) the "did you check this and did you
> try this" method of trouble shooting with some sort of feed back loop
> something very innovative could be created. This would be taking the HOW-TO
> one step further.
>
> I would really like to try to do something this. However, I have zero time
> and zero experience with perl/python - but if anyone else thinks this is
> interesting and would like to talk about how this might be done I'd like to
> persue this a little more. Maybe there is something like this already...
