discuss: New HOWTO: Self-certifying File System (SFS)
Subject:
Re: New HOWTO: Self-certifying File System (SFS)
From:
Stein Gjoen ####@####.####
Date:
3 Feb 2005 19:35:04 -0000
Message-Id: <42027D10.7040408@mail.nyx.net>
G Ferguson / LDP wrote:
>>>>I feel there is a need for overview documents for wide
>>>>topics with relevant links to specific HOWTOs too.
>>>>
>>>Wouldn't it be better then to make the HOWTO index a bit more desciptive?
>>>This was suggested on the feedback mailinglist last week.
>>>
>>I second this. I also made a suggestion how it could be done:
>> http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/doc_index.html
>
> That's really not any more *descriptive* than the current HOWTO
> index is it? It states the abstract, which is what we do now. The
> difference is that it contains links to the different variants for the
> document (postscript, pdf, plain text etc)
I feel adding the abstract does make things more descriptive. In
addition there is a line with keywords for additional searching
possibilities. In the HOWTO Generator I put in a field for
one line descriptions that if implemented could be added too.
> I could easily produce such a list from my existing scripts, if that's
> what we want and folks feel it would make for a better "index".
You have my vote for making that list.
Regards,
Stein Gjoen
