Re: [gentoo-dev] Troubleshooters for Gentoo

[Joshua Nichols]

Maurice van der Pot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed in the past that a lot of people come to irc with problems
> in some area (say networking) that are easy to solve just by first
> asking a number of questions to identify the problem and then providing
> the solution.
>
> I've always liked the way Microsoft put these troubleshooters in their
> help files. While the content of Microsoft's troubleshooters probably
> never really helped anyone, the format of a troubleshooter is in my
> opinion one of the best ways to help people solve their own problems.
>
> Now I've hacked up a program that can create a troubleshooter from
> specifications of questions and problems and their dependencies, but I'd
> need to have some decent content to really make it useful for other
> people.
>
> I think having a couple of Gentoo-specific troubleshooters would be a
> great resource for new users (not just new to Gentoo, but new to Linux).
>
> I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) Does this sound like a good idea?
>
> 2) Does anyone feel like pouring his/her troubleshooting skills into
>    content for my program?
>
> The program is still very immature (I skipped a lot of things that
> weren't absolutely necessary for the program to show what it can do),
> but that'll be fixed.
>
> When given proper input, it generates HTML files that you can click
> through and that will hopefully lead you to (a solution to) your problem.
> It has some sample content to show the format.
>
> Maurice.
>
>
> http://griffon26.kfk4ever.com/~griffon26/troubleshooter-0.0.2.tar.bz2
> 43f0042c802ad5ddcdf2a4db671c41c8 *troubleshooter-0.0.2.tar.bz2
>
>
If I'm not mistaken, the kbase project was established to help with this 
type of information:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kbase/

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Joshua Nichols
Gentoo/Java Project Lead
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