Gerald (Jerry) Carter schrieb:
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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Gerald (Jerry) Carter schrieb:
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Craig White wrote:
I wonder if having some sort of wiki on samba web site wouldn't be
useful for things like logon scripts and registry settings to be
shared/discussed so they had their own longevity and current
appropriateness as email archives don't often reflect the changing
nature of things and sometimes the samba documentation has different
objectives.
We've talked about it before but there is a fear that a
wiki would turn into a propogation mechanism for Samba
urban legends. Someone (or a team of people) would need
act as editors. Truthfully, if it were done right, it
would be probably be a good thing. But if it weren't
it would be a really bad thing.
It's definitley too much for the developers to take on.
IMHO Samba wiki could be a great source of info for both new and
advanced users.
Why should Samba wiki turn into something bad, if lots of other open
source projects have wikis too, and they are useful?
:-) We have a tremendous amount of urban legend on this list.
Just count the number of times someone as suggested the
sign-n-seal registry file for XP clients using a Samba 3.0.x
server.
baah, some time ago I asked the same question :) when I couldn't join XP
machines to the domain (where Windows 2000 was working fine) - I spent a
couple of hours trying to figure out what's wrong (some old wins.dat /
browse.dat on that test server was the cause).
But we have at least one volunteer, Craig. And I told him I
would look into it. So we'll see what happens. Anyone else
interested in monitoring/editing a wiki to ensure accurate
information?
that's the whole beauty of wiki (at least mediawiki I used, and which is
used by wikipedia.org):
- you can easily see "recent changes" (new pages/articles, changes on
pages, who made them etc.)
- you can easily compare changes (i.e. compare the state of an
article/page we have now with the state we had previously) - so it's
just a matter of seconds to spot if someone posted crap or something
valuable
I think the most important thing (and the hardest, too) would be to
design good categories to post articles in (some articles would be of
course in multiple categories), like:
- different Samba versions (2, 3, 4...)
- backends
- printing
- configuration
- installation
etc.
Basically, lots of categories could come from Samba HOWTO, but wouldn't
be just the articles copied/pasted from the HOWTO, but something posted
by the users, and eventually commented, corrected etc.
I could imagine myself commenting the sign'n'seal hack :)
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