Your English is good enough. What we lack is people willing to do the work. If
you are willing, we'll guide you. Hopefully, others will join the effort too.
--
Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon
d...@langille.org
> On Jul 22, 2017, at 3:48 PM, lcompu...@t-online.de wrote:
>
> Hi Dan, Hi Wanderlei, Hi Kern,
>
> At first I have to admit that I'm not that kind of fairy dust native English
> speaker :-)
>
> I'm nativ German and would be happy to provide some translations anyway.
>
> But I have a strong technical interest, but would never have the time to do
> some direct programming stuff.
>
> However I would be interested in updating and improving the manual.
>
> And maybe I could also assist in doing some "basic" support. I'm sure I will
> need a lot time to learn more, but I think it's worth a try, isn't it?
>
> Best,
>
> Christian
>
>
>
> -----Original-Nachricht-----
> Betreff: Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula manual is too outdated
> Datum: 2017-07-22T21:42:32+0200
> Von: "Dan Langille" <d...@langille.org>
> An: "Wanderlei Huttel" <wanderleihut...@gmail.com>
>
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2017, at 1:00 PM, Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com
> <mailto:k...@sibbald.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello Wanderlei,
> Unfortunately, the community has rarely contributed to the manual, though
> they have feed in lots of information that I have put in the manual. Perhaps
> 1 of every 20 submissions comes with documentation. So it all falls on my
> back. There is one exception to that, and it is the Enterprise manual, which
> is improving. I have a project going with Bacula Systems to ensure that
> there is only one manual source rather than the two that currently exist.
> Consequently there is a chance that within the next 6 months to a year that
> the manual will improve.
> Developers including me detest writing documentation. I write it because
> otherwise I spend too much time on support. Even with a perfect manual, I
> spend too much time on support, because a lot of people do not read it.
> Those are just facts of nature that we must live with unless a fairy goddess
> comes along and sprinkles some mother tongue technical person with fairy dust
> that causes him/her to get interested in the manual.
> Best regards,
> Kern
>
> On 07/21/2017 06:38 PM, Wanderlei Huttel wrote:
> Hello Kern
>
> Always when is necessary to take a look in the manual is painful, because
> there are a lot of new features and improvements that not well documented and
> many times when we doesn't achieve what we want, we give up.
>
> How could the bacula community could help to keep manual up to date? In the
> last releases it looks only "new features" was updated.
> There are many settings it would be interesting to have more examples to be
> clearly.
>
> Documentation is one of the easiest ways for community members to contribute
> to a project. No coding skills required. It is much easier than it sounds.
>
> If anyone wants to get started, the bacula documentation mailing list archive
> has some suggestions regarding simple changes.
>
> I'm on that mailing list, so if anyone want to get started, I'm happy to
> guide.
>
> --
> Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon
> d...@langille.org <mailto:d...@langille.org>
>
>
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