Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[Jared Buck]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 22:38 -0600, micheal wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 02:19 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > how are we ever going to create the good,
> > searchable archive of answered questions?
> > 
> 
> Just an idea, How about a desktop applet that does web searches on the
> archive and other sources? Maybe something added to the panel that would
> send out a request and parse/ return the results.  Other sites could be
> added as well.
> 
> This of course won't help for most questions, but it may stem the tide
> a little bit. 
> 

That sounds like a workable idea - an applet wouldn't take up much space
nor would it require much training or help to use.  An applet of this
kind obviously would need to be able to connect to various sites that
offer Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core help or solutions, and the applet would
need to incoporate each site into its search (possibly in a preferences
panel, there could be a list of sites that the applet searches for?) and
like you say, parse the results and return the ones that are most valid
and pertaining to the user's question.

I'd be all for something like this.

Jared