Hi all, I'm pretty amazed of the amount of feedback i have for what was at the beginning a personnal project.
Here is my comment of few things: (it's a compilation, sorry not to have written to each of you separately) David Zelinksy wrote: >I suggest you send a note to the author of any posting you intend to put on >your web page, asking permission. Though I expect few people would object, >some might prefer not to have their email address and/or name included. ok that will lead more trouble and more work but i see it better that way too. so i hope that you all won't be upset against me if you received from me many emails asking your permission to put your tip on the page ;-) also many times there are more than answer to one question. i hope that everyone won't be upset if i use only one answer (that is one author) please note also that my aim is not to record all tips i find here (or elsewhere) first because there are too many and second because i don't have the time to. Completely subjectively, i adding only the ones i prefer. >At the very least, it would be courteous to notify the author that his or her >message might appear on the web. Without this, most people would assume their >postings will only appear here, and in the Debian list archives. ok that will be done. David Karlin wrote: >Perhaps if you see a tip you'd like to add, perhaps you could ask >the person if he/she would like to: > (a)have his/her tip included in your database (very likely, but it > would be simply courteous to ask first) > (b)have his/her name and/or email listed with the tip i will do that. my only fear is that it will lead to many many email exchanges, but there is probably no other good ways... >If the tip came from this mailing list, you could find the person's >name and email address in the list archives. i've just done that and find old previous tips authors. so i'm emailing them right now. Mark Phillips wrote: >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. Here is my comment about FOM. I knew that before i started. First my project was personal at the beginning. I was collecting tips for myself, and settled once to order them a little better. Then i imagine that it could be helpful to others.. so i've put it in my web page, but i didn't expect so much answers ! I find *many* differences between LTT and FOM -FOM is Debian-centric, and although i'm using (and i will use) a lot of debian lists for LTT, i'm clearly open to other sources... I like debian and i use debian so i haven't bother to subscribe to other mailing-list like ReDhat's and such but some people have already pointed me to other sources. -I've also found in FOM some tips not credited ! OK i've made that mistake with LTT too but i'm correcting that right now and it should be ok in few hours (an author for each tip) -I've received many answers, from readers of debian-user and other, and no one mentioned FOM, probably because it is not well-known. I definitively think it souhld appear somewhere ! -Main problem i find with FOM : no position in time I've bothered to add the time i collected a tip, because i think things like that are moving so fast that old things could no longer be correct . In fact everything is still fresh, but someone already told me one tip is outdated !! So i think to have the time somewhere is mandatory. -I think LTT is more ordered, because there are already more sections, and nothing is hard coded, so i will add sections when i will need them and one tip can appear in many sections at the same time. I think FOM is more 'official' and 'Debian-centered'. Both projects I think can survive together. Of course (like someone else said) the mailing-lists by itself are a definitive source. The only problem when you search them is the amount of answers. I think something like LTT can be useful because i'm editing (promise : i will ask authors first) the text and putting keywords (in meta tags) that will be used by htdig as soon as i add it => the search will be better i think. Thanks all for your input and feedback, Patrick PS: because i haven't said it before, sorry for my English mistakes, as my mother language is French. /\//\/\/\\/\/\//\/\\/\/\\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\ Patrick M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.patoche.org/ Sysadmin of patoche.org, globenet.org, bde.espci.fr