On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:06:55PM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On November 1, 2002 08:15 am, Jeremy White wrote:
My vision for the FAQ is a hand edited main FAQ with the current FAQ-o-matic being pushed to a secondary role.
Please get rid of the FAQ-O-matic. The interface is atrocious. A hand written one would do just fine, is not like we add 100 questions per day! (And if we do, something's wrong, who's gonna read them?)
Excuse me, what is sooooooo terrible about the FOM ??? Having to maintain hundreds of different web pages by hand (in order to gain the required interdependencies for some complicated issues) is a *lot* more difficult than simply adding/removing/reordering FOM content as you see fit. I agree that using a static web page for the FAQ part instead could probably be better - but for the troubleshooting content ?? The troubleshooting content is meant to be a step-by-step problem solver area (and it is, to some extent). Now tell me how you'd implement the same thing easily with an ordinary web page, without losing flexibility for very quick changes/reordering ??
*I* am the one maintaining the FOM (well, currently on the paper at least :-) and thus *I* reserve the right to have some extra say on how that docu part should be done. To me it sounds a bit like people turn a glaring maintenance problem (I currently don't have a lot of time to give it the necessary attention it requires due to people adding tons of stuff, and there're not too many people to still properly handle this) into a general, greatly simplifying "we need something entirely different, this sucks" kinda thing.
IMHO the REAL problem here is that the content is sort of outdated and unmaintained since I currently don't have a whole lot of time to spend in the IRC channel in order to catch up current Wine issues of people, and of course due to other obvious reasons.
...unless you can convince me that the FOM *indeed* is the wrong approach and you name me a valid replacement that handles the step-by-step problem solving approach at least as well as the FOM (or you name me an entirely different approach that is *superiour*).
Turning the FOM read-only might also be a "solution" to the maintenance issue...
I'm starting to be fed up about the fact that people keep complaining about things, without *really* suggesting superiour alternatives and *really* making sure this gets fixed if it's not good enough.