-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 04:42:10PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
[...] > I read the Debian.Readme file and came away confused. What is a > "rake task". Rake is Ruby's own take on Make [1] -- i.e. a program used to build other programs. > I could use a little more info as to what is meant by > database instance. Does this mean that if I have projects A, B and C > that each constitutes a database instance. That's my guess, but I'd think that you can set up several independent Redmine "sites" on one box. Each of them probably needs an own database "instance". > Were did the X_DEBIAN_SITEID come from, or is it just a normal > environment variable. Throwing X_DEBIAN_SITEID into your favourite search engine turns up, among other things, this [2]. The way I read it, it is an environment variable to help differentiate several Redmine installations on the same host. So probably Advanced Stuff. > I think someone needs to write a setup > window for this one. I guess I want a program that works out > of the box and don't want to have to fool around with a lot of > command line stuff. I ditched exim because of the set up. I quit > using several other programs because of the same thing. I'm not > much of a hacker unless forced to be one under dire circumstances. > Clear instructions (no assumptions) and setup windows could go a > long way making open source software more usable. I'm sitting here at Debconf [3], among literally hundreds of Debian developers, all of them working hard (many of them in their free time) to give to us this fantastic distribution. I understand your frustration (I often swear at my computer too, and do even worse things), but I think the best way forward is to get involved. > Now that I have that rant out of my system, I will dig into the > readme file more carefully. I still need to know what a RAKE task is > and get some clarification on the meaning of instance in this case. Here [4] [5] are more resources which might help (this time I just fed "debian redmine help" into my favourite search engine). Here [6] is the mailing list archive for the maintenance of the Redmine Debian package, you might want to subscribe here [7] if you want to contact the maintainers directly. What I wanted to get at: occassional frustration is understandable. But never forget that Debian is a mainly volunteer project (and this is exactly what makes it so awesome). Perhaps a scathing phone call to "user support" is the wrong approach here :-) [1] http://rake.rubyforge.org/ [2] http://www.redmine.org/boards/1/topics/16647 [3] https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/ [4] https://wiki.debian.org/redmine [5] http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/HowTo_Install_Redmine_using_Debian_package [6] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers/ [7] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlXUErsACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbr5gCfUxa6cQAVqrNt001Fyi0iKNiR lNcAn0tLQe/Dep47Ax4b7OZK7ACvdmMb =5/8G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
