On 19/07/2008, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Alan Bartlett <ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com> > wrote: > > On 18/07/2008, Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Note that none of these articles are about building RPMs anyway, one > >> is a kind of FAQ on Yum and RPM and the second one is on building your > >> own kernel. > > > Perhaps you would care to draft out what you have in mind. > > > Russ, Ralph and Akemi - do you have any comments, please? > > My view on this is as follows. > > I and many others use Wiki articles to help users. A good example is > the Repositories page: > > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories > > Just checked the CentOS forums and found we have referred to this URL > 18 times this month alone. That's about once a day. I see the same > thing on the CentOS IRC - frequent citation to that Wiki. > > As a matter of fact, quite a few Wiki articles were created out of > demand - demand by helpers rather than users. We get tired of typing > the same thing over and over again. Agreed, entirely. So, when I want to assess if a new Wiki page is worth writing, I base > it on the past record and see if that article would have helped if > existed. Here, I picked up some threads in the forums that are > related to "building from srpm". > > (1) This is the latest one. In there, Ned gives a brief description > as the "theory". > > > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15267&forum=37&post_id=53624#forumpost53624 > > (2) In this thread, a user asks "Is there some howto to do that on > Centos...?" Alan answers with the correct command. But no one > responded with a howto. > > > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=15002&forum=28 > > (3) Another regular helper and now a Wiki author, pjwelsh, also > provides an answer with the rpmbuild command to use. > > > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15184&forum=31&post_id=53235#forumpost53235 > > (4) Yet another case by pjwelsh. > > > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15161&forum=45&post_id=53115#forumpost53115 > > (5) Here is mine as toracat :-D > > > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14195&forum=38&post_id=48562#forumpost48562 > > Except for mine which was in May, all other examples are from this > month and from "highly knowledgeable people". I personally feel (my > selfish thinking) that a single point of reference to a CentOS wiki > would have helped *both* the helpers and the users in all these cases > and many others I have seen not only in the forums but in the mailing > lists and IRC as well. Thank you for those well put and thoughtful comments, Akemi. Is that how you propose to proceed, Fillipe? Alan. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20080719/4d62915d/attachment-0002.html>