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