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Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting
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Mark Burgess |
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Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting |
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Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:17:15 +0100 (MET) |
On 2 Mar, Hugo Gayosso wrote:
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> Mark Burgess <address@hidden> writes:
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>> A general principle:
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>> Don't give users what they ask for, give them what they need.
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>> 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.
>
> 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.
There's that word again. Wiki? Don't know what that is, but the idea
sounds right. Why not go ahead and set something up.
M
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- Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting, Hugo Gayosso, 2003/03/01
- Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting, Hugo Gayosso, 2003/03/01
- Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting, Hugo Gayosso, 2003/03/01
- Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting, Hugo Gayosso, 2003/03/01
- Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting, Hugo Gayosso, 2003/03/01
- Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting, Hugo Gayosso, 2003/03/01
- Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting, Hugo Gayosso, 2003/03/02
Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting, Hugo Gayosso, 2003/03/02