On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 11:13 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Christopher Chan > <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > > Would this do as a rule? > > > > If it is something 'supported' as in one will answer questions on it if > > it was asked on irc or the mailing list, then it can go on the wiki > > (sendmail, apache, postfix, samba, whatever comes with the Centos > > distro). If it won't be 'supported' then minimal documentation such as > > how to install from rpmforge can go on the wiki. > > No, I don't think so. Because many things which *come* with CentOS > just work. There are many other things people use on CentOS - and > which come from repositories like rpmforge, atrpms, epel or elrepo > which are more or less advertised on the CentOS wiki - where someone > had trouble setting it up and wrote some document about it. > > I don't think that we need documentation on how to install something > from one of those repos via yum. In my opinion this documentation > should at least contain a useful basic configuration, which can get > people going on CentOS. If there is a need for cookbook recipes which > also can be found elsewhere I don't know, but don't think so. But at > least links to those recipes should be there. > > > But before we go on, may I ask what is the purpose of the Centos Wiki? > > That is a good question. IM not so HO it should contain documentation > which gets people going with things on CentOS. Which is a very broad > view. > > Because people will *always* look for documentation on CentOS venues > first before even thinking about going to the sendmail.org webpage, > for example. Sendmail.org that is a joke! Configure sendmail to be HIPPA Compliant hehe... That should be on the wiki... > That is one of the reasons why people like Distributions like Ubuntu, > Arch and Gentoo - their documentation is rather extensive. > > Ralph > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
