On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Ned Slider <ned@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> Many of you on this mailing list may still remember the longish thread >> regarding the writing of a HowTo rpmbuild article. At that time, I >> quoted several forum posts to demonstrate the fact that we repeatedly >> *type* the same answer each time a new person asks the same question. >> This was because there wasn't really a good single point of reference >> we could use and the best way of responding was to write the whole >> thing out (again and again). >> >> At lease for me, the most propelling reason for creating a new article >> is to make things easier for people helping new users rather than to >> expect new users to read it. >> >> And the article/subject Ned is proposing is indeed worth writing. >> With so many people switching from Fedora and other distros, we have >> been having so many occasions in which we should explain what an >> enterprise class OS (thus CentOS) is about. >> > > See, you put that so much better than I did! > > As Bill suggested, if the FAQ section were more comprehensive, that would > work equally well. > > For me, it's as much an issue of structuring the information in a way that > makes it easy to find/link to as it is about merely creating the relevant > content. While we are still discussing the subject (or are we?), *yet another* new person posted a question in the forums [1]: "I was wondering, is majority of the software in the repositories outdated or is it something on my side (and how could I fix it)? For example, the newest version of PHP that I'm being offered is 5.1.6 and gnome 2.16.0." [1] http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=17299&forum=38 A link to the "planned" what-is-an-enterprise-class-OS article/FAQ would have been handy. Akemi
