[desktop-discuss] Ideas for a better FAQ/troubleshooting guide?

[Clayton]

Brian Nitz wrote:
> I'd like to figure out how to better focus the desktop FAQ and 
> troubleshooting guide.  The JDS Nevada FAQ is currently published as a 
> twiki here:
> 
> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Desktop_FAQ_for_Solaris_Nevada_%28JDS%29
> 
> Using a twiki makes it easier for community contributions, but I think 
> there is still room for improvement.  Ideally this shouldn't be a flat 
> document, but some sort of database which would easily accept new 
> entries from the community.  Also, each entry in the troubleshooting 
> guide should be tagged with which releases and sw/hw configurations the 
> entry applies to.  That way when a user has a problem, they would 
> specify their environment and get a targeted troubleshooting guide.
> 
> [X] OpenSolaris 2008.05       Opensolaris Nevada build (none or 1-100) 
> []         [ ] Solaris 10      [X] SRSS    [N/A] Sparc   [X] X86  [X] 
> Gnome   [] KDE    [] XFCE
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to implement this and deploy 
> it on opensolaris.org? 


Is there something like the MediaWiki DynamicPageLists extension for 
TWiki?  We are starting to implement DPL for the FAQ on the 
OpenOffice.org Wiki, and it has a lot of interesting capabilities for 
dynamically creating page lists based on criteria you provide.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/General
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList

C.