On 9/28/07, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lee Meador wrote: > > That sounds as easy as herding cats. Trying to get all the people on the > > user list to NOT do anything is unlikely. > > > > The fact is, as I see it, its easier to just give a quick answers to > > questions that strike my fancy than it is to hunt it down in the docs and > > point them to it. That allows me to limit the time I have available to > > "invest" in Maven. > > > > If I give the the URL directly, they don't know how to find it in the > > future. > > What could be easier to find than a URL? Just add a bookmark/favorite. > > > If I want to tell them which links to click to get there, its a pain for me. > > Its also likely to change in the future (as it has in the past when the docs > > were rearranged). > > FInally, typing in a list of things to click is error prone and easy to get > > wrong. > > > > Maybe someone (or ones) would volunteer to collect the questions from the > > newsgroup and transfer them to the site if someone else would reply to the > > interesting questions with some magic words that could be searched on. So, > > for example, I see what seems to me to be a FAQ with a useful answer in some > > thread on this list. I reply with the magic word "FAQCANDIDATE" in the > > reply. I picked one "word" because Google searches for two words differently > > than one word. Then the collectors could search for that word and come up > > with a short list of user list threads to mine for good FAQ entries. > > This is exactly what the user wiki can be used for. If people on this > list would go the extra bit and add these FAQ candidates (plus answers > of course) to the user FAQ we'd have won a lot. Sure, people are actually happy to do it, but it's gotta be straightforward to do so. The wiki 'answered questions' faq has all the good answers in it, and it's not the FAQ list on the side of the maven.apache.org page. It's not even the Wiki page you hit when you go to the wiki and hit the FAQ. Instead we get the unanswered questions, which is not helpful.
Earlier today I finished adding the questions & answers from the FAQ on maven.apache.org to the Wiki's 'answered questions' faq. So now it can serve as a complete replacement for the maven.apache.org page. Can we get that one linked to on the left-hand sidebar now? -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
