[asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

[Mik Cheez]

If you find something on a WIKI that is outdated, guess what you have an 
opportunity to do . . .


Noah Miller wrote:
>> It seems to me that everything one may want to know would be contained
>> on voip-info.org
> 
> Hmm.  Dangerous statement.  There are many things on the WIKI that are
> quite outdated, and a great many other things that aren't there at
> all.
> 
> 
>> People don't ask stupid questions because of a lack of a FAQ to read,
>> they ask stupid questions because they're too lazy do to the footwork.
> 
> True.  They may not know how to look up the answers to the stupid
> questions, though.  I think a FAQ would help greatly in these cases.
> 
> 
> - Noah
> 
> 
>> Robert Broyles wrote:
>>>> I think we'd be better off posting a regular FAQ, perhaps weekly, with some of
>>>> these suggestions, as well as providing a link to that FAQ from the mailing
>>>> list signup page, along with a STRONG suggestion to peruse the FAQ first.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I agree with this 100%
>>> I'm still pretty new to the mailing lists myself. I don't consider
>>> myself a novice Asterisk user, but one of my biggest 'complaints' is the
>>> lack of a well documented FAQ or Manual for Asterisk. (Unless one is
>>> willing to buy or read O'Reilly's Book - http://www.asteriskdocs.org -
>>> which quickly will be outdated again.)  I have made it a personal aim to
>>> document all my findings in a blog, so that it's at least searchable by
>>> others through Google, in hopes that others might find it useful.
>>>
>>> But if we had a REGULARLY updated FAQ/Manual ... I think that would
>>> greatly cut down on the clutter posts.
>>>
>>>
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