> On Feb 20, Bruce Perens wrote > > I think what we need first is a person to coordinate all of the oldbies > > who are answering questions. There has to be a schedule, perhaps a mail > > alias that is directed to different people at different times, etc. > > > > Second, we need a person who edits all of the questions and answers into a > > web tree. The web tree should be orgnanized by package or something, and > > then under the package name you see a big list of questions and click on > > them to see tha answers. > > It could be very useful to use the same system that's used for the > kernel hacker's guide (http://www.redhat.com:8080/HyperNews/get/khg.html). > The KHG uses HyperNews > (http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/hypernews.html);
I was thinking that this would be a good thing to add to dwww (as an external link). Unfortunately, dwww (which I am furiously working away on) probably won't be in any shape to support this for a few months. My concept is: when requesting help on a topic, dwww would identify which package the topic belongs too. Then, via a plug-in interface, other routines could add additional text and links to the page returned by the search engine. One of the plug-ins could be a link to a HyperNews archive. I am very interested in doing this. I am even willing to contribute space on the dwww web server ( http://dwww.jimpick.com/ ) which I own. Maybe we don't have to wait until I get around to fixing up dwww. If someone is willing to do the work, I can provide an account and space on my server so that HyperNews could be set up and the proper heirarchy created. Send me some e-mail if you are interested. Cheers, - Jim
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