Hi! I totally agree with Mark on this subject. The whole idea of FAQ-O-MATIC is great, and once it showed up I thought it would quickly develop. In my PERSONAL opinion it did not quite reach it's goals.
1. I agree with Mike - put it on the main page. 2. It's quite complicated. I tried once to start a thread there, followed enormous number of steps (username, confirming e-mail) ... and still failed. It's certainly because I'm dumb. 3. Still mailing archive in my mind is the best place for a tip. Why? It's very easy to use, perfect organisation, great search engine. And unlike FAQ-O-MATIC anyone can easily contribute to the list. On the other hand we don't want another copy of mailing list.... Don't understand me wrong: I love the idea of FAQ-O-MATIC, I just think that the project diverted from it's original goal. One of the best FAQ's I saw was at CERN, about PAW (Physics analisys workstation) It's a plain list sorted by number of requests. Question that I was interested in was right on top. (http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asdcgi/listpawfaqs.pl) >I've had a look at the tips and tricks page and it is a good effort. The >only query is about whether we are reinventing the wheel. We have the >FAQ-O-MATIC on the debian web site: > > http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html > > It would be good if all sorts of tips and tricks went into here. There > are already quite a number, but adding more would be great. > > Also, the FAQ-O-MATIC doesn't seem to have a link from the main page. > This might be a good idea.
