[Asterisk-Dev] RFC: Moderating the Asterisk Mailing Lists

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On January 7, 2005 05:42 am, Brian Wilkins wrote:
> If the project is ongoing, why are the docs on the www.asterisk.org website
> outdated? The Asterisk Handbook: Second Draft was last published in March,
> 2003!

That's the problem -- the handbook isn't what I was referring to.

http://www.asteriskdocs.org/

Last updated: 5 Jan 2005.

> I don't think the list is the problem, it's simple lack of good, solid
> documentation. Newbies will always have questions, but we can't blame them
> for asking when a lot of the information on the wiki is outdated, plus we
> don't even have a recent handbook published. Look at the mysql website
> (another open source project), they have loads of documentation and it is
> easily searchable.

Agreed -- the trick is in the documentation and as I put it, yodelling it from 
the rooftops.  :-)

-A.