User Feedback :: DSL FAQ Boot camp - Bring a helmet.

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The new documentation section looks really good, it must have taken a lot of work to get it organized and launched!  So a big thanks for that effort!

Thanks!

Tronik and I could never have done it without all the great people on these forums. They're the ones with the brains, I just had the time/motivation to start piecing something together.

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One question = how do we handle "howtos" with this new setup?

Right now, post it in the forums, and send myself (SaidinUnleashed), or tronik, a Personal Message (PM) with a link to the topic you posted it in. We will look it over, edit it if needed, and post it into the Docs.

We hope to have a submission form eventually, but this will have to do for now.

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Also a suggestion/offer  = I'd be willing to wade through the forums past posting and extract a set of draft FAQs for our documentation.  I could put all of the potential FAQs into a consistent format (like 1= person who posted the "answer", 2 = date of that posting, 3 = Question & 4 = Answer . . . .. or whatever format would be more appropriate, possibly the documentation section it should be incorporated into?).

I believe that this is already being done. A little birdie told me to watch for big changes to the "Getting Started with DSL" page (that comes up in Dillo when you start up DSL).

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I can put it into any of the windoze's office products or one of the DSL's app just as easily. I started to do something like this offline for my own use, but haven't gotten very far due to the difficulty of opening a forum posting and then pasting it into my document master plus wanted to help and wasn't sure that what I was "producing" would be helpful to the DSL documentation effort.I can put it into any of the windoze's office products or one of the DSL's app just as easily.

If you are asking me, make 2 versions. The first one should be a plain text file. The other one should be a PDF file. Xpdf is very nice for creating .pdf files, but I'll admit, I've never used the version in DSL to do so. I have however, used Pathetic Writer, and it does a passable job.

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I started to do something like this offline for my own use, but haven't gotten very far due to the difficulty of opening a forum posting and then pasting it into my document master plus wanted to help and wasn't sure that what I was "producing" would be helpful to the DSL documentation effort. So-o-o-o-o would this help? If so, how can I get a "text" file from the last "6" months of the forum as a starting point?

Not sure about this one. Ikonboard seems to be very different about handling posts compared to the board systems I am familiar with (Invision and UBB).

You would have to ask John or Robert about this. But be aware that John may say no. He has been very busy with his "real" job lately. Poor guy.

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Someone would then have to review what I put together, and then put it into our DSL documents.

I, myself am more than willing to help with that, but classes start back up in a week, so I may soon become hard to find. X_x

What would be best, really, would be for you to use somewhere like Filespace or another hosting solution to host it, announce it on the forums, and link to it.

There are many people on the boards smarter than me, who will be more than willing to help you.

Good luck.


-J.P.