On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 04:51 +0000, g wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> <snip> >> > Maybe these FAQs are good enough in terms of content (I don't know), but >> > if newbies don't know about them and oldies very rarely refer to them >> > then there's a piece missing. >> >> all of them were easily found by clicking menus at left of main pages. > > But how many people even bother to look at these pages? > >> > This was discussed recently. Until shown otherwise, I stand by my theory >> > that the lack of search is due to the list being managed by Mailman. >> >> i really do not feel blame is 'mailman'. > > I'll repeat what I said a few days ago in another thread: even the > Mailman archives (i.e. the archives of the mailman-users list) don't > have a search box! See > http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030520 which confirms > this and suggests several alternatives. > > I'm sure if was easy to do this it would have been done long ago and > this list would have a search function. Note: *easy*, not *possible*. > > poc > Not easy, but not impossible... we simply got to stick to the limitations of the design. A search function would greatly simplify the search for answers. Don't we normally say "google this, google that" because we know the benefit of a search mechanism? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
