Dag Wieers wrote:
> That was the main motivation to have a single entry-point for people
> looking for information. Whether it is something that is solved by
> documentation or not.
All of what you said here makes sense, but then surely its the other way
the merge should take place - people who want help are more likely to
look at a 'Getting Help' page rather than a Documentation page - And we
should then change the tab's and url's to point at that page. Perhaps
Documentation can be a part of that page itself.
One thing that we dont highlight enough is that its often a good idea to
talk to the local LUG or peer's who might already be using Linux. In
other cases, its a good idea to talk to the people who sold you a
specific solution as well.
None of this has anything to do with Documentation or Manuals.
On the flip side the docs page could be expanded quite a bit as well to
have deeper links into things like the deployment guide /
virtualisation guide etc so people know whats on the other end. Eg. look
at the present Documentation page, think of someone who has not used
CentOS before - what would be the most apt url to click if you want to
find out howto install the distro. I stared at the page for a few
minutes and failed, so took the first option listed there which is to
search the wiki. Searching for 'install' on the wiki has interesting
results. none of which are really relevant :D [1]
Once we can get a resonable Documentation page in place, we could then
divert www.centos.org/docs/ page to the wiki page. ( but leave the
manuals where they are )
Btw, that 'Learn' url on the wiki.centos.org could be changed to
something that is more relevant. Getting Help might be a good option for
that as well. At the moment, its 'Learn' pointing to a page called
'Documentation' that is really a Getting Help page.
[1] I wonder if its possible to get rid of all those extra Moin pages
that seem to come up with every search :/
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Karanbir Singh
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