Mike Gerdts wrote: > I'm having a bit of struggle figuring out what we want to do with the > content there. Is our goal to help people admin their OpenSolaris > box? Or is it perhaps a place to help keep sysadmins up to date on > development/decisions that others are leading that have potential to > help or hurt us? Neither? Both? > > By nature, everything that a sysadmin cares about has overlap with > what nearly every other community has done or is doing. Is the value > of this community perhaps in providing a way to show how the bits fit > together in a manageable way? I have the easiest time convincing > myself that this is where the value of this community is and projects > like the Use Case Project strike pretty close to where we can offer > value. The main place where the Use Case Project misses the mark is > that it aims to give feedback to development for things that are > needed. Sysadmins tend to need to focus on implementing those things > that already work (with a bit of duct tape). > > Thoughts?
I think the primary focus of the SA community is providing a forum for interaction of Solaris administrators and arming each other with resources. - This inherently overlaps with other groups. For instance, should tools for network monitoring be a project of Observability or SA? Thats a fuzzy area that leans more toward the Observability community. Or documentation, perhaps one of our most important contributions, that again leans toward the Documentation community. Therefore, I think the SA Community should perhaps be one of the most frequently contributing communities we have, although few of them are distictly the property of the SA community itself. - When I think toward the future, of what we can be and should be producing, I think the best contribution we can make would be to produce Best Practice documents and procedures. Best Practice falls outside the domain of Documentation (namely, production of manuals). Traditionally this has been a sub-function of Sun's PAE group, however we've seen that contribution diminish considerably, partially due to the demise of "Sun BluePrints" and partially due to RIF's. Even the most experienced administrator wonders, "How are others doing it?" or "Is this the best way?" The wiki structure should aid us in creation of such best practices and procedures. I can't think of any better gift we could provide the community than serving as a definitive authority on best practice. Not only because we have so many experts, but because we could become a magnet to attack others. benr. _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
