[hobbit] Sorry... I had to vent

[Jerald Sheets]

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


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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