The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

[Aldo Foot]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 04:51 +0000, g wrote:
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>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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>> > Maybe these FAQs are good enough in terms of content (I don't know), but
>> > if newbies don't know about them and oldies very rarely refer to them
>> > then there's a piece missing.
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>> all of them were easily found by clicking menus at left of main pages.
>
> But how many people even bother to look at these pages?
>
>> > This was discussed recently. Until shown otherwise, I stand by my theory
>> > that the lack of search is due to the list being managed by Mailman.
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>> i really do not feel blame is 'mailman'.
>
> I'll repeat what I said a few days ago in another thread: even the
> Mailman archives (i.e. the archives of the mailman-users list) don't
> have a search box! See
> http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030520 which confirms
> this and suggests several alternatives.
>
> I'm sure if was easy to do this it would have been done long ago and
> this list would have a search function. Note: *easy*, not *possible*.
>
> poc
>

Not easy, but not impossible... we simply got to stick to the limitations
of the design.
A search function would greatly simplify the search
for answers. Don't we normally say "google this, google that" because
we know the benefit of a search mechanism?

~af