On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Thomas Rother wrote: > I would like to describe it a bit more precisely: > > (1) ONE thiong is a "rehaul" of the general Midgard docs (-> deatailed > documentation with reference, like a "handbook".
There is now a HOWTO available on how to help writing the documentation. > (2) ANOTHER thing is a simple but still complete and up-to-date (-> > 1.4.2.1) documentation of the FIRST steps into Midgard, the main install > problems which may occur in various distributions (mainly those that are > NOT used by the developers, like SUSE ...), any workaround plus a simple > setup for a first Midgard site "from the scratch". The online FAQ generator can also be used to write HOWTO's for specific things like SuSe installation. > let's look at this thing a bit more from the "user" instead of the > "developer" side. ;-) I'm glad you're volunteering. Mail me for a login to the FAQ editor. If you need extra help on how the documentation and or FAQ systems work, let me know. > P.S. I installed midgard 1.4.1 successfully on SUSE 7.1 a few months > ago. It took me approx. 6 weeks, numerous IRC sessions with Daniel, > Torben and others, a complete rebuild of apache and also some updates > from the CVS tree (the tar.gz did not work). Returning to 1.4.2 last > week, I tried to install this on SUSE 7.2 as we need to do the same > install in our company soon. I didn't work, although it was said that > numerous install fixes were made. > Can't you imagine that this is VERY frustrating for the ordinary user? > And that this is NOT what people expect from "professional-grade" Open > Source software? Let me reflect to you: Can't you imagine that it is VERY frustrating for the average contributor to the project that some people fail to see that Open Source software is built by a _community_ which exists of users of all levels as well as developers? And thus try to _take_ and _demand_ more then is available? A "professional-grade" Open Source project has community members that will give something in return for what they get. We do have those, but others are only looking for free beer. > ;-( Indeed. -- 'As greed grows like weed, many bad seeds start to conterminate the crop. I think that needs to stop' -- GURU Armand A. Verstappen * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
