[hobbit] Working on Xymon Documentation

[Josh Luthman]

I can offer my help with 2 and 3.  I am by no means an expert, though.

On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Josh Luthman
> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>> Would you like me to proof before it is published?
>
> Proof read is not needed yet.
>
> Need people that know (or not afraid of ) following keywords.
> 1. LaTeX/latex2pdf and basic svn skill.
> 2. Use dia do draw some xymon architecture diagrams.
> 3. Knowledge of Xymon client and server.
> 4. technical writing on Xymon subjects.
> 5. GNU Make.
> 6. Have Fedora 1X OS at home, or willing to login into my home
>     Fedora 13 machine for the above work.
>
>
> What I have so far,
>
> 1. Xymon RTFM, the latex version of Henrik's doc work.
>    1.1 Need many updates since Hobbit has Has been reamed to Xymon.
>    1.2 Need much labor work to index keywords to generate correct index.
>          A very good example to use divide and conquer method with the help
>          of a few people.
>
> Following is vaporware.
>
> 2. Turn/enhance  Xymon Wiki book into LaTeX format.
>     Reuse Xymon RTFM book making framework to generate
>     2.1 Developer Guide.
>     2.2 User Guide.
>     2.3 Administrator Guide.
>     2.4 Overview slide.
>
> I will try to upload(not publish!!) the Xymon RTFM during this July 4th
> weekend.
>
> tj
>> On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> According to R1, we now have 7 volunteers interested in Xymon
>>> documentation area.
>>>
>>> I am interested to find out who are willing to work on Item 2 of R2.
>>>
>>> I started a few years back and never got to finish it.
>>> Henrik gave me S.F. commit privilege for this purpose. so I still own
>>> him the set of docs.
>>>
>>> I worked on this and later found I am really bad at English Writing.
>>> So I try to convert the troff files
>>> into latex file and have the book center around existing set of troff
>>> files.
>>> I got a RTFM xymon book for my me and my colleague to study Xymon with.
>>>
>>> New I have a two data sources issue, latex and troff files. So every
>>> time troff files changed
>>> latex file need to be changed as well. This is quite labor intensive.
>>>
>>> I looked around and found there is latex2troff file converter, the
>>> make process can generate troff file.
>>> If we can have all team members use latex then we can generate all
>>> Xymon doc into different formats use latex.
>>>
>>> For now I like to invite people interested about this xymon-latex
>>> project to join me.
>>> I will clean up and upload my existing work to S.F.
>>> sandbox/tjyang/docs directory.
>>>
>>> Lots of work here to generate Xymon docs set(using latex)
>>>
>>> Please help.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> tj
>>>
>>>
>>> R1:
>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_volunteers_Roles_and_Responsiblity
>>> R2:
>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_Documentation
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