Re: desktop resolution

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Paul Warren <pdw@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 u07ih@abdn.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> > While the lists were MIA, I made a suggestion that maybe the FAQ should move to
> > a sort of Knowledge Base type setup, where users could do natural langage
> > queries on the KB articles, and people could post their own articles about things
> > that they found helpful while trying to solve a problem, that could be checked
> > by someone, and then added to the knowledge base.
> 
> I think that this is an excellent idea.  A big step in the right direction
> would be to make the mailing list archives searchable.  I know that this
> has been raised before, but I really do think that it would be an enormous
> help. 
> 
> What is the problem with making them searchable?  Everybody else has
> searchable list archives... KDE have searchable list archives... ;-)

Aha! a volunteer!

Basically, somebody needs to:

 a) set up a good archiving system with searching
 b) move the current archives over

None of the regular admins of gnome.org has the time or experience
with a good archive system to do this job, so we'd appreciate help.

Regards,
                                        Owen