Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 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 rapidly become out of date.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
>
>
>   

I've talked with Mike about this.    While I very much like the idea, it 
seems CSI is about coming up with a list of specs with IEEE-RFC words 
like "MUST" and "SHOULD" in them (i.e., selinux MUST be enabled, SHOULD 
be in permissive mode) in a common format, while I'm more wanting to 
have a more general reference guide.

We could still have some CSI documentation for Cobbler (want to provide 
some?  I'd be more than happy to help review it).

--Michael


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