Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Could someone please update the FAQ or should we drop it completely?

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> As I'm reading the current FAQ (and someone pointed that it should be 
> included in the help system), it seems to be very much outdated.
>
> There are a lot of entries which are obviously not a *frequently* asked 
> question today, e.g. 5.2: "This is a bug in Ethereal 0.10.0a, which is 
> fixed in 0.10.1 and later releases."
>
> I'm seeing two options here:
>
> - someone takes the time to take care about the FAQ to keep it accurate 
> - and keeping it accurate
> - we drop the FAQ completely (which is my favourite)

Given the number of questions that I've seen (okay, not recently) in 
mailing lists that are answered with a link to the FAQ, I don't think 
removing it would be a good idea, if only to save people from typing the 
same response over and over again...

> An FAQ which helps people about problems we had years ago doesn't help 
> anyone IMHO.

True, but many of the questions _are_ still frequently asked (especially 
with regard to Windows capturing, wireless capturing, etc.).

But of course it does need to be kept up to date.  Maybe it should be a 
Wiki so the rest of us (who don't have svn write access) can update it 
(without having to go through all the work of submitting patches)?