--- In mt-dev@yahoogroups.com, "kevin_shay <kevin_shay@y...>"
<kevin_shay@y...> wrote:
> > - a "tips and tricks" section. i'm not sure this is much better
> > than the tips and tricks forum on the MT site, besides the
> > fact that it'd be personally chosen/moderated for "proper"
> > trickery / novice explanations, etc.
>
> What about trying to develop a FAQ listing? There are quite a few
> "how do I do X?" questions that seem to come up repeatedly on
> the forum, and there are so many old threads there at this point
> that searching for answers is a little cumbersome.
>
> I think a group weblog for plugin authors would be a good idea.
> Kristine's done a great job with her listing, but it seems like it
> would make more sense to give each plugin author the ability to
> update the entries for their own plugins. I don't want to make
> work for Kristine (or anyone else) whenever I update a plugin
> from 1.2 to 1.21.
>
> A multi-author weblog with comments enabled might also be a
> good way to start discussing best practices. I guess we could do
> that here, but I find using Yahoo Groups somewhat painful, what
> with the ads and the one-message-at-a-time interface.

Both the FAQ/cookbook and plugin directory listings sound like
TrackBack repositories waiting to be setup -- perhaps with a few added
tweaks. It would spare us the issue of permissions and so on. I won't
offer hosting since it sounds like that is well covered, but I'd be up
to overseeing the FAQ/cookbook. I have a hundred or so bookmarks to
useful tips and tricks in the forum. I can only imagine what the
support team three that graces our list has stored up.

Before we act, we should get the thoughts of our fearless leaders --
the truly "almighty" Ben and Mena.

<tim/>
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Timothy Appnel
http://tima.mplode.com/