SDL Knowledge Base

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I think that it seems like an overwhelming majority seems to think that
knowledge base sounds like a good idea. (If not overwhelming, many at least
think one would be useful to community as a whole… Remember all, this may
cut down on emails on the list.)

I think we are going to need to come up with a template for what a knowledge
base entry is going to look like. We also need some sort of spec. on how it
will be laid out. These are obviously off topic to the general SDL list.

I suggest that everyone that wants to be involved in deciding such a spec.
and template send one email to the list w/ the subject SDL Knowledge Base
(just so it’s instantly recognizable) with their email address they want
such emails to be sent to and something stating that they would like to be
involved.

We will then contact each other about this on without sending emails
involving this to the SDL mailing list. (I think everyone’s inbox could use
a bit of a break.)

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joe at fatnsoft.com
I would like to be involved in helping to form a SDL Knowledge Base template
and spec.

PS: Please note this is a different email address than the one this email
was sent using.

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  • Fro Joe on Fri, Jan 18, 2002:

I think that it seems like an overwhelming majority seems to think that
knowledge base sounds like a good idea. (If not overwhelming, many at least
think one would be useful to community as a whole… Remember all, this may
cut down on emails on the list.)

No, it will not cut down on e-mails to the list, especially off-topic ones
like the chain of mails you’ve been sending the last two days.

A number of on-topic posts to the list are either FAQs and newbies that
haven’t bothered to read any of SDL’s excellent documentation or plod
through the multitude of demos, apps, games, and libraries referenced on
SDL’s homepage. I don’t have anything against newbies in general, only the
ones that don’t bother to READ before posting.

On the contrary, given more tutorials will see an increase of posts asking
how to get them working, or other unrelated nonsense.

I think we are going to need to come up with a template for what a knowledge
base entry is going to look like. We also need some sort of spec. on how it
will be laid out. These are obviously off topic to the general SDL list.

Of course.

I suggest that everyone that wants to be involved in deciding such a spec.
and template send one email to the list w/ the subject SDL Knowledge Base
(just so it’s instantly recognizable) with their email address they want
such emails to be sent to and something stating that they would like to be
involved.

Um, why can’t people just send you “templates” directly without going to
the list? If you already know it’s off-topic to begin with, it doesn’t
make it OK to post.

OTOH, the recognizable subject will make it easier to kill the thread.

We will then contact each other about this on without sending emails
involving this to the SDL mailing list. (I think everyone’s inbox could use
a bit of a break.)

Yes, it can. Stop sending this crap to the list.

M. R.
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Sadly, It is true - a big number of users just never read any docs,
yet expect to be helped. Being list admin for various lists where we
get FAQs sent to the list despite having a well-maintained FAQ, which
is accesbile directly from the front page of our web site, whose URL
is sent to everybody joining the list, people just don’t read it.
Quite tiresome, but face it, that’s reality.

I will stop this off topic post now, sorry, but here’s on last link
that sums exceedingly well my feelings on this:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Max–

Max Horn
Software Developer

email: mailto:Max_Horn
phone: (+49) 6151-494890

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Uh… Joe and anyone who wants to join his knowledge base project surely
private email wouldbe a better way to manage this, rather than a useless
series of “ME Too!!” mails to the list.

Of course, maybe work on the sdldoc project would be a better way to
spend your weekends?

sdldoc at csn.ul.ieOn Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:57:33PM -0600, Fro Joe wrote:

joe at fatnsoft.com
I would like to be involved in helping to form a SDL Knowledge Base template
and spec.

PS: Please note this is a different email address than the one this email
was sent using.

SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl

–
Martin

Bother! cried Pooh, as he pushed The Button to start Armageddon.

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Thus spake M. R. Brown (mrbrown at 0xd6.org):

No, it will not cut down on e-mails to the list, especially off-topic ones
like the chain of mails you’ve been sending the last two days.

Yes, it can. Stop sending this crap to the list.

M. R.

People getting upset because of “off-topic” posting sends a bad signal to the
community. Anything related to SDL is considered fine for the list so why
is a knowledge base about SDL considered “off-topic”? I am on other lists
for different projects and they never freak out about posting something
about the project, no matter what the question. If you think you are "above"
the topic just ignore it. I think attitudes on this list need to lighten
up a little.

Just my 2 cents.–
Todd V. Rovito
@Todd_V_Rovito
Carpe Aptenodytes! ================ “Seize the Penguins!”

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Yeah, add me to the list–
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Hi there,

What exactly do you mean with a Knowledge Base?
I agreed with Sam to “upgrade” the SDL website. I’ll add many new features.
Maybe I could help you with that Knowledge base by implementing some
specific stuff on the site…
Just tell what you need.

C ya,
Ged.