Wouldn't it save everyone some time if we could convince Red Hat to put up a resources/links page on the Fedora website to pages that document the new features in Fedora. Or at least create an "official" Fedora FAQ that would link out to "unofficial" but high quality sites. Or maybe the maintainers of these "unofficial" FAQs can pool together their talents and donate their knowledge to one monolithic "official" Fedora FAQ. I see a lot of questions on this list that could be solved easily in this way. After awhile people would know to visit the Fedora FAQ/Knowledge Base and be confident that they will find their answer there. Thoughts?
Corey
Or adding to my previous post, perhaps the mailing list archive search interface could be improved and made to look more like a knowledge base type interface. So many obscure things have been solved on this list, that by improving the search interface to the list it unlocks and makes a lot of pertinent information much more accessible. For example, one easy improvement to make would be to put a link directly to the search inteface at: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/. So on the page where the mailing lists are listed (http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/communicate/) there should be a direct link to the archive search interface. For example:
fedora-list - For users of Fedora Core releases | Search Archives for Solutions | Join Archive
So, instead of just linking "fedora-list". Perhaps we could add additional, clearly-labeled links. But adding a "Search Archives for Solutions" type link, this makes it clear to unfamiliar users that the mailing list is a great place to find solutions to obscure problems. This tweak alone could improve things a lot for people looking for help. Since the info is already there, it just needs to be revealed in more efficient ways.
Corey
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 15:43, Corey Taylor wrote:
Wouldn't it save everyone some time if we could convince Red Hat to put up a resources/links page on the Fedora website to pages that document the new features in Fedora. Or at least create an "official" Fedora FAQ that would link out to "unofficial" but high quality sites. Or maybe the maintainers of these "unofficial" FAQs can pool together their talents and donate their knowledge to one monolithic "official" Fedora FAQ. I see a lot of questions on this list that could be solved easily in this way. After awhile people would know to visit the Fedora FAQ/Knowledge Base and be confident that they will find their answer there. Thoughts?
Corey
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