On Friday 13 August 2004 05:52 am, Colin Charles wrote:
Don't know about the wonderful Fedora resources available out
there...
they know
fedora.redhat.com, but that's about it
They find
fedorafaq.org or
fedoranews.org too late, usually
Our aim is to fix that, with the documentation subproject; so how do we
go about that?
Provide a mention of them in the REAMDE in the root CD directory with a
disclaimer that "These sites are not maintained by RH/Fedora, you should
always examine software licenses, etc."
A similar approach taken by Mandrake at my suggestion seems to have helped
them. In other words, you try to tell the new user as soon as possible that
there is a community with something useful to offer. Those sites could also
provide cut-and-paste examples of the alternative sites for yum.conf, perhaps
wrapped in a script that inserts them in the yum.conf file and runs "yum
check-update" to grab the data files as well as display a "Here's what you
do
with this stuff" html page and a desktop link to that page. Ambitious, yes,
but appropriate to the audience.
--
Hoyt