On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Michael DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the things I've talked about previously is writing a much > involved "Best Practices" deployment guide for Cobbler. I think > Cobbler's far enough now that it would be a good time to do this, as the > core of things should not be changing so significantly that it will not > rapidly become out of date. > > The focus would be on large scale and complex deployments, and would > roll up and incorporate all the content on the Wiki with various things > I hear from users about how they manage their deployments. This is > very much going to be a "book" in terms of length. How short or long > I'm not sure, but it will exceed the manpage and Wiki in scope. > > I'm going to start working on that soon, so I am wondering if there is > anything specific you folks would like to see covered or included? > > As with Cobbler, this is intended to be collaboratively developed, so > the document sources will be kept in git. > > My main concern at this point is if the deployment guide would become > out of sync with the Wiki and/or manpage, so I'm tempted to just write > the deployment guide on the Wiki. However this is less than ideal for > printing reasons. Alternatively, we can look to hosting all > documentation in DocBook, though this makes the Wiki less Wiki like. > > Publican seems to be a popular option for document publishing. > (https://fedorahosted.org/publican/wiki/UsersGuide). It has the > disadvantage of being XML, though I think this still may be a bit better > for getting contributions than something like LaTEX. >
Is this something we can tie into Mike Mcgrath's CSI project? https://fedorahosted.org/csi/wiki/FAQ -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
