Funny - I just added my first SDB article, and so I got caught up on the mailing list because I had a few questions.
Martin Lasarsch wrote: > Hi > > On Friday 11 May 2007 04:16:05 Rajko M. wrote: >> Today I found one article >> http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD >> moved to SDB, as it was tagged with template >> http://en.opensuse.org/Template:Movetosdb >> >> I copied article back to original location leaving the one in SDB >> untouched, and changed template a bit, to temporary fix the wording. >> >> That brought me to think about the purpose of SDB. >> It was one time when Support Database was source of many solutions that >> helped us, and inclusion in openSUSE wiki was great present from SUSE. >> While SDB is better organized there is no many authors that write for it >> and even those that do don't look often in >> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Howto >> as rules are adding complexity to those for writing ordinary articles. > > Like the structure of an article, the focus of an easy description etc. ... > >> My question is;"How to define the purpose of SDB?" > > The SDB is the first place where a User should search for a solution for the > problem he/she have. It is usually written for beginners so it needs a > special style. I like the idea of the SDB as a more general "I have a problem, how do I solve it?" as opposed to the more elaborate nature of a HOWTO, which generally goes from point A to point B, while the SDB does a lot more explaining along the way. > If there are suggestions how to improve the SDB:Howto, please let me know ... How do I add a category (or categories)? I added a little explanation of how to figure out what command is being run from the commandline, but didn't really see any categories that fit. I would think something like "commandline", "shell", or "bash" would work, as it isn't really a "ConsoleApps" problem. Also, the article example in the SDB Howto uses |N in the Category and I think it should be |C, right? [[Category:SDB:Network|N]] [[Category:SDB:9.0|N]] -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
