Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting

[Andrew Stribblehill]

Quoting Hugo Gayosso <address@hidden> (2003-03-02 10:51:20 GMT):
> Mark Burgess <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > A general principle:
> > 
> >  Don't give users what they ask for, give them what they need.
> > 
> > Many "complaints" are just not thinking straight.
> 
> I have seen and experienced myself that sometimes the users ask for
> something "silly" because they don't know the "cfengine way", one way
> to solve this is to have examples available for the users so they can
> see the "cfengine way" of doing things.
> 
> I think that was the idea behind the "hint directory", but I think we
> should make it dynamic so more people can contribute to it and make it
> easy to show the "cfengine way" of doing things.
> 
> I think we should use a web site using a collaboration software
> (e.g. Wiki, Faq-o-Matic, etc) which accepts input from outsiders that
> way we will not only have the configuration examples, but comments
> about them, and possibly improvements for the example.

Wikis always seem to work to the lowest common denominator, in my
experience. However, having a place where any users can upload their
site configurations and experienced users annotate with supplementary
comments sounds useful.

> Some time in the future this could become a large library that will
> help new users start implementing cfengine successfully because we
> will lower the learning curve.

With Mark's new scoping system, hopefully this will be made much
less brittle.

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