Lally Singh wrote:
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?
I have added a link to the (answered) FAQ wiki page on the left-hand
side menu. It'll be right next to the (official) FAQ entry. Note that
the site has not been deployed yet.
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Dennis Lundberg
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