X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 01:28:30 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users Message-ID: <20101009052830.GA12072@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <29894398 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <376593050 DOT 20101006200403 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <20101007220900 DOT GE24824 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:32:21PM -0500, mike marchywka wrote: >I have actually thought of starting my own forum for a different field >after contacting the site that inspired my interest, they had no >interest in a forum. My idea was something like wikipedia with more >prominence to the discussion and somewhat different entries. If you >could make a cygwin wikipedia, with pages related to topics, perhaps >questions posted to list could shape the entries with the responses to >related questions pointed to from the main article, perhaps that could >add value. Google however does reasonably well extracting mail list >archives, but I have found that often information gets fragmented - you >can find a message with "thanks that worked' but then you have to hunt >for question since someone edited it out to save space. A top posted >"thanks" with question and answer below could actually be the best post >for future googlers. FWIW. We've already mentioned that we need help improving our documentation. The documentation at the Cygwin site should, in a perfect world, contain what a user needs and there should be no need to go to google for information. So, rather than invent some convention to make it easy to look up things in google, we really should be updating the words available on the cygwin site. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple