Subject: Helping Out
From: Daniel E. Lautenschleger (dan@www.molbio.wisc.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 23 2001 - 16:03:52 EST
Jeff:
I would love to help out and assemble documentation that would ease
installation/operational issues. The problem is, I don't fully understand
what changes have been made since the whole shebang got moved to
sourceforge and truly what all the options and challenges are for the
various installs on the different platforms.
If you have a general direction or thoughts of how I might proceed, I
am more than willing to help out. I've thought for quite some time that
there are not enough people helping you out.
Here's another thought meant to be non-offensive:
You for the courage and talent, have signed on to administor the Netatalk
project on SourceForge. Therefore, you need to spell out *exactly* what
areas you need help with (besides documentation) and say I need someone to
do this, somone to do this other thing, etc... and approach it that way.
Who are the current members of the team that are strong at programming?
Who is good at writing documentation? Who can communicate on a regular
basis regarding bugs that need to be resolved? Is it even a bug? Who is
going to regularly respond to people in the help forum (besides other
users) to assist with simple and/or major issues?
I gues we need some structure added to the SourceForge site and I'm as
guilty as anyone else for not doing more to promote this as I have signed
up as developer. Well, I suck at C but I don't mind doing some
administrative work if you'd like me to.
Just some thoughts that I think may move us forward with a more
presentable operation as v1.5 release approaches.
Tell ya' what, rather than rambling any longer, I will seriously examine
what I think needs to happen with regard to making a more effective
SourceForge presence over the weekend and present you with my ideas next
week via e-mail.
I can stop my complaining and contribute that energy to the project :-)
Sorry for the ramblings...
-Dan
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, jeff wrote:
> "Daniel E. Lautenschleger" wrote:
> >
> > You've got to be kidding me...
> >
> > What the heck does --enable-redhat do? In fact, where the hell is complete
> > documentation on the various installation options as well as what's been
> > fixed after each release!!!!!!
> >
> > Not trying to piss anyone off. Jeff has done a fine job so far :-) It
> > justs gets frustrating at times.
> >
> > No flaming please. Just a bit of venting. I am now patient and
> > grateful once again...
>
> That's okay. I'm not offended.
>
> I *know* that documentation is lacking, other than the usually unhelpful
> "./configure --help", which still doesn't explain much about the
> options.
>
> If anyone would like to help out, it would be much appreciated, since
> the README was last slightly patched when I had a little bit of free
> time, and I haven't really had time to maintain it.
>
> Might move the --enable-redhat,--enable-suse, etc switches to
> --enable-sysv=(redhat|suse|...) or something in the future, since a ton
> of switches like that is just bound to get confusing.
>
> jeff
> (with tremendous apologies for the cross-posting)
>
--Daniel E. Lautenschleger University of Wisconsin R.M. Bock Laboratories Network Administrator and Computer Support dan@www.molbio.wisc.edu
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