[hobbit] Sorry... I had to vent

[Vernon Everett]

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?
My most (in)famous one being the one about "when is the next version due"
That certainly set the cat amongst the pigeons. :-)

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.

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. :-)

Cheers
     V






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
>
>
> 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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> >
> >
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