Re: Booting Debian/testing fails
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:28:19PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Sunday 04 February 2007 16:11, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:18:20 +0000
> >
> > Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > So does this mean that the Debian community, while helpful to
> > > > newbies that know enough how to ask a question, would be happier if
> > > > newbies who don't just went to one of those projects instead?
> > >
> > > I hope not! Perhaps we need a debian-newbie-users list? It would need
> > > some more-experienced users prepared to monitor the list and offer
> > > "gentle" advice. The NewbieDOC project used to have a list like this.
> > > Unfortunately, it ceased to function as it lost a critical mass of
> > > more-experienced users, and had to be closed a couple of years ago.
> >
> > I suggested this myself about a year ago, but there are reasons not to
> > do this. One of them is the reason your own list didn't work.
> >
>
> For the interested, A summary of why there is no newbie list can be found at
>
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html
>
> under "Why is there no separate list for newbies? Can you create one? Should I
> create one?"
>
Now how did you find that? I just tried using lynx from www.debian.org,
followed the mailing list links and also tried
lists.debian.org/debian-user
I found the code of conduct but not the du-guidelines. Shouldn't it be
easier to find?
Doug.
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