Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[Gustavo Seabra]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 09:16, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
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>>>Who's going to do that extra work looking for questions to answer?  If
>>>a question drops in your mailbox and you happen to know the answer it's
>>>a couple of seconds to solve someone's problem.  Who's going to bounce
>>>though a bunch of web sites for that?
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>>I would *like* to! I've had fun trying to help others and hanging out on
>>this community over the last decade. However, I believe that
>>participating in the same way on a web forum will be impossible for me.
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>The one thing I could see as an improvement over the current mailing
>list and bugzilla for fedora users would be to add a wiki that would
>be maintained mostly by a team of volunteers who would collate the
>frequently-asked questions on the list into stock answers on the
>wiki.  Then much of the clutter on the mailling list could be avoided
>by searching the wiki first, and if new users don't  recognize the
>symptoms well enough to find the answer themselves, the mailing list
>response would only have to be a pointer to the wiki entry.  Issues
>that are real system bugs should get filed into bugzilla and things
>that are common operator mistakes/misconceptions or that have simple
>workaround solutions could become wiki entries that are easily updated
>as the situations change. 
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That, plus the news <--> mail <--> web feature suggested by Rodolfo, 
plus the applet suggested by  Micheal would be a great solution. 
Actually, we're having a great number of good suggestions that could 
work well. I really hope they will be implemented some time in the near 
future. That brings up one other question:

*Are the people actually responsible for making these changes following 
this thread?*

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Kansas State University
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