Timeline for Site FAQ Update Suggestions
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| Jul 27, 2010 at 2:23 | history | edited | Zoredache | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 27, 2010 at 1:10 | comment | added | Thomas Owens | Yeah. That's why it's real important that the SF FAQ defines "server" as it means to system administrators (to account for people like me who come here from StackOverflow asking about things that us CS/SE people consider to be servers) and then get SO and SU to change their use of "server" in their FAQs so people don't get confused and wander here when they should be someplace else. | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 1:04 | comment | added | Zoredache | I wasn't disagreeing that it is CS definition, I was am trying to say that the definition is pretty far away from how a system administrators would define what they mean in their day-to-day usage of the work 'server'. | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 1:04 | comment | added | Thomas Owens | I see your edit. And that's the point I'm making. When I see in the StackOverflow and SuperUser FAQs that I can ask about servers here on ServerFault, my mind goes to the definition of server that I use as a software engineer. But as you can tell from my story in my original posting, it doesn't mean the same thing here on ServerFault. The SF FAQ should reflect the working definition of server as it applies to this site and the SO and SU FAQs should reflect the definition chosen by the SF community. | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 1:00 | history | edited | Zoredache | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 27, 2010 at 0:44 | comment | added | Thomas Owens | The definition of server that I provided is THE accepted definition in computer science and software engineering and is pretty consistent across three books that I own, so I really can't argue with it. As for your other comments, I really like the differentiation and emphasis on the task at hand - I think you might have hit the nail on the head, but it's just a matter of making sure that if someone has a question, they know what tasks are best addressed by each community and I think that all three FAQs aren't doing so great at getting that point across. | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 0:36 | history | answered | Zoredache | CC BY-SA 2.5 |