Re: Proposal: Trash the 2.0 FAQ.

[rb...@covalent.net]

+1.  Before we do this, can we list which FAQ's will remain, and which
will be removed?

Ryan

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joshua Slive wrote:

>
> Proposal: Remove essentially all the questions/answers from the 2.0 FAQ.
> Leave only perhaps half a dozen of the most general questions.  Add a
> reference at the top of the FAQ telling people to look in the 1.3 FAQ for
> questions that are not answered in the 2.0 FAQ.
>
> Reason:
>
> - The 1.3 FAQ is borderline unmanageable, both from a maintainer and a user
> perspective.  It just has too much stuff in it.  It will be almost
> impossible to highlight important 2.0 FAQs because of all the garbage left
> over from 1.3.
>
> - A large number of questions in the 1.3 FAQ will be obsolete in 2.0
> either because
> a) The features have changed in 2.0
> b) The issues no longer exist (eg. broken libraries, etc)
> c) The issue has been documented elsewhere.
>
> - On the last point, the FAQ has become somewhat of a documentation
> crutch.  Instead of properly fixing the documentation to address important
> issues in context, the FAQ has been used as a "quick fix".  I think the
> documentation is improving to the point where this is less necessary, and
> hopefully it will improve further in the future.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Joshua.
>
>
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