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On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:33 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> For some time now, the idea of a Gentoo Knowledge Base, like RedHat [1] |
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> and Microsoft [2] do, has been brewing in Andrés Pereira and my minds. Not |
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> only that, but a feature request was also filed some time ago [3] and just |
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> recently a forum thread was started for it [4]. |
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> So, what is this about? |
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> A Knowledge Base provides answers to specific questions and problems that |
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> users (or developers) might encounter. It is easily searchable and |
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> maintained by developers who are knowledgeable in the topic. The knowledge |
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> base entries ("topics" as I like to call them) are not documentation guides, |
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> but very specific to a particular environment and question. They should |
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> leave absolutely *no* room for different interpretations. |
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I think that sounds excellent and like it certainly could fill some gaps |
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and be useful for users (and developers). |
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