[Maypole] Absolute Beginners List?

[Alex Goller]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:18:05AM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote:
> I think Simon wants this Maypole list to be run in the same way as most 
> other technical lists (and rightly so).

I don't want to speak for Simon or the list, but here's what i thought
about the last few mails with all those questions :)

> eg Before posting you better have :
> 1) read the FAQ, and the documentation first

I think much of the documentation and a lot of stuff in the wiki need
to be fixed in order to work for Random J. Newbie.
Following the list in the last days i thought of some fixes:
 
 * either put beerdb together with all stylesheets in the distribution
   or create a separate archive distributed via the website
 * package up ISellit so that it is usable/installable
 * expand the InstallationIssues (database permissions, missing
   modules, etc.)

> 2) done all the things mentioned here :
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before

ack :)

> 3) made sure your question is actually about Maypole and not one of the 
> modules that it uses.
> (and a whole bunch of other things too)

Which is in some sense hard to discover for newbies thinking that
maypole might be 'cool'. Maybe i should just hack my fixes into the
wiki (installation issues) and somebody else fix up the links for
ISellIt and the BeerDB css templates.
So, no, i don't know if there's an absolute beginners list.

just my 2 cents, alex
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alexander goller		alex@vivien.franken.de