discuss: Re: Beginning of outline for policies
Subject:
Re: Fwd: Beginning of outline for policies
From:
Alexander Bartolich ####@####.####
Date:
21 May 2002 21:01:03 -0000
Message-Id: <3CEAB560.9090701@gmx.at>
Guylhem P Aznar wrote:
> [...]
> Then what about an "unrated" section, where every document
> (as longs as it deals with GNU/Linux related subjects),
> in every format would be accepted, without any proofreading?
I think that rating should happen in shades of gray, not black or white.
Similar to the way stories are created on kuro5hin. They might linger
around for a long time, and then suddenly appear on the title page
once they reach a certain thresh-hold.
> This "playground" area could be a place for newbie authors to try
> to show what they can do before making their document a full
> fledged HOWTO in linuxdoc or docbook.
IMHO technical design of this structure is not easy.
Accepting plain ASCII instead of SGML can ease the learning curve.
But on this level I expect contributions to be just a few pages.
I can imagine two project types where that can be used to build
something large:
a) a HOWTO presenting simple tests and exercises, a "try this at home
on your fance machine and report results".
b) a Q-A. Make up your own questions, find a place where it fits
the outline, and give your best answer. Eliminating duplicates,
and shuffling the outline around will get messy.
I imagine something along the lines of "2-Cent Tips" and
"The Answer Gang" known from the Linux Gazette.
Anyway, the important thing is to let the contributors fight it
out themselves. I think that similar to group pressure in usenet
this might weed out trolls by itself.
