Re: Q&A FAQ URL - add to "Getting Help" page

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 07:46:03AM +0200, Wolfgang Jährling wrote:
> Hi Grant!
> 
> Grant Bowman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I just ran across this page.
> > 
> >         http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> > 
> > I feel it should be added to this page.
> > 
> >         http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/help.html
> > 
> > I can do some editing and send an HTML diff to apply to the page if
> > people think this is a good idea.
> 
> Well, I appreciate that you want to try to help improve the Hurd web
> pages, but... this has nothing to do with the Hurd at all. And it even
> talks about "open source" and calls Linux an operating system. *shudder*
> 
> So, I don't think this is a good idea, even if the document is certainly
> useful in a general sense.

I agree.  Although it seems the site as a lot of valuable information, it is
nothing we need to add to our page.  And his concerns are right, some of the
information in it would make it downright harmful and actually violate our
own policy (like calling the system GNU/Linux, not Linux).

In fact, if we have the need to tell people how to behave in our community
or give them some guidelines how they can get the infos they need, we should
write up our own rules and advices ;)

But feel free to tell all the people you know about this document, it
certainly can give some guidance if someone feels irritated about a hacekr
community.

Thanks,
Marcus

-- 
`Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org address@hidden
Marcus Brinkmann              GNU    http://www.gnu.org    address@hidden
address@hidden
http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de