[hobbit] Sorry... I had to vent

[TJ Yang]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Vernon Everett
<everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:
> About 2 years ago, somebody might recall the exact date, I do not, I grabbed
> a single month's worth of mailing list, and examined every posting.
> From them, I extracted and distilled each question and useful answer into a
> Q&A document. Something along the lines of a FAQ.
> I posted it on the list, and invited others to grab a month and do likewise.
> I was overwhelmed with apathy. :-(
> On a positive note, TJ added my Q&As to the Wiki. (Thanks TJ)
> See here
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/FAQ
> I think I was responsible for some of these. TJ - can you remember?

Yes I remember doing the media wiki conversion work.
I thank you doing the  leg work on collecting the FAQ text.

> My most (in)famous one being the one about "when is the next version due"
> That certainly set the cat amongst the pigeons. :-)
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> You don't need to be a Jedi Master level to distil posts into basic Q&As.
> Anybody can do it. Even me.
> Grab a month, announce it, and let rip.
> I will make it easy.
> Add your name to a month below and repost (to prevent duplicate effort), and
> just do it.
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> 02/2010 -
> 01/2010 -
> 12/2009 -
> 11/2009 -
> 10/2009 -
> 09/2009 -
> 08/2009 -
> 07/2009 -
> 06/2009 -
> 05/2009 -
> 04/2009 -
> 03/2009 -
> 02/2009 -
> 01/2009 -
> And there are more. Don't be shy. :-)

Vernon,  put my name onto ONE of the month above and I will do the FAQ
collecting work.

tj
> Cheers
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> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think Damien makes a good point.  It appears, from his message, that he
>> doesn't even know about the wiki.
>>
>> Yes, there's a wiki.
>>
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit
>>
>> It's been my answer a number of times to very simple questions.  It
>> contains many of the things you need to get a basic install up and running
>> and even contains some tutorials at writing your own checks in the NCV/RRD
>> piece.
>>
>> And Damien, even though you're not an "English natural speecher", your
>> questions always show that you have at least made an effort to look around
>> first.  Now you have a wiki to add to your list of things!
>>
>> Damien is a regular, contributing member of this mailing list, and  I
>> think gets precisely what I'm talking about.  He goes out, looks, reads, and
>> offers the knowledge he has already found then asks his question in light of
>> what he's already learned on his own.  That is *NOT* what I'm talking about.
>>
>>
>> I think this has been a good discussion all around.  I went back and
>> looked at the histories of several regular members here, and everyone is
>> quite a good citizen.  We seem to have some pop in from time to time and ask
>> a question that clearly betrays they didn't so much as look at anything and
>> just want to be spoon fed the answers every step of the way.  That's what I
>> was talking about last night.
>>
>> In ANY event, let's keep this puppy rolling.  I don't think there's
>> anything out there better than Xymon.  Let's all keep working to make it
>> even better every single day.
>>
>>
>> --j
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>> On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:37 AM, doctor at makelofine.org wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I agree with Jerald, but I'd like to moderate his speechs. On my side, I
>> > sometime asked dummy questions, because I didn't know where to find the
>> > answers.
>> > Mailing list archive, Xymon UI help, man pages, FAQ & Tips on xymon
>> > homepage... Many sources of informations.
>> >
>> > And as Maik said, we all are not english natural speechers. On my side,
>> > I
>> > don't have to much difficulties to understand, but it's not always true.
>> > So, I think 2 things can be done :
>> > -Having a central information source, and several language in it.
>> >
>> >
>> > In order to centralize informations I think a wiki should be a good
>> > approach. We could paste all informations from UI help, manpages, and
>> > FAQ &
>> > Tips, then actualise them.
>> >
>> >
>> > I don't have much free time, but I can spend some hours to translate all
>> > informations in french. I could be usefull to have german, and some
>> > asian
>> > language (japanese, chinese...). As I don't know any word of theses
>> > languages, I can't do it myself.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Damien
>> >
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T.J. Yang