Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 05:58 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> But ... hmm ... there has been discussion in the past of having a
>
kbase.fedoraproject.org that is a stand-alone knowledgebase. If we
> opened it to all Fedora account holders and had kbase articles queued
> for this team to edit (part of a workflow), maybe we could build up
> something very useful. I could see many discussions on e.g. fedora-list
> or
fedoraforum.org being worth migrating into a kbase article.
>
+1 on this. I would really like to see a kbase for Fedora. I think it's
an excellent way to organize a large number of targeted how-to articles.
It can also be a lot easier for a contributor to write a brief kbase
than to get involved with a larger "guide" type of document. Then, guide
writers can pull from the kbase for ideas as well.
I think it would be better to avoid having too much information in
FAQ-style, since although referencable, they are not very readable or
usable as a manual.
On the other hand, it would be great if we had that information in the
guides/chapters and compile a set of FAQ that the answer is like "More
information for this can be found <there>. For customizing it, see
Chapter <Foo>, paragraph <Bar>".
I believe the most difficult part of doing the Handbook would be to
decide on a good hierarchy that strikes a good balance between
usability/quality and reference-able.
>>
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/ref-guide/
>>
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/security-guide/
>> (e.g. the vpn question)
>>
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
>>
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/step-guide/
> Heh, I could never forget those. :)
>
>> Obviously these are not fedora docs and most people using fedora know
>> about them, however not everybody, and these are not compatible
>> everywhere, but I am sure there are some useful peaces. So they should
>> be referenced somehow. (sometimes better than empty wiki pages)
> We may be able to fold some of that content directly in, rewritten to
> match Fedora. Let's not make any plans that require that content, which
> is too bad since it would provide such a huge base to work from :(, but
> let's be prepared to be surprised.
Who should we contact to move some strings to free those docs? It would
be *great* if we could use them.
-d
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