On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 04:56 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Gavin Henry wrote: > > <quote who="John Babich"> > >>> > >> I'm looking forward to them, especially the one on OpenLDAP. > >> Will that doc also address Fedora Directory Server? > > We can find documentation from the FDS wiki. Actually, there is very little documentation on the FDS wiki itself other than a (good) FAQ, feature list, and standard developer information. The majority of the "good" documentation is the Red Hat Directory Server Documentation, which does not offer very good practical hands-on information that puts it in reach of the majority of Fedora users. (It is *very* helpful for enterprise administrators, but they are less likely to use Fedora solutions for long-term support scenarios for good reasons.) Not to mention that none of these Red Hat documents are licensed in a compatible way content-wise. > > We don't know anything about FDS, and don't really want to ;-) OpenLDAP is > > far superior. > > I dont know anything about A but B is definitely better. Amusing. Isn't it? Actually, this *is* an interesting perspective of many users (of anything, as a matter of fact), that tends to take root when the vendor or offering entity doesn't have any clear hooks on which they can "sell" a product. This has been written about in a bunch of places, but I think most recently I've seen it come up tangentially on the "Creating Passionate Users" blog, which everyone around here should probably check out -- if only for a couple of priceless articles on good user manuals. FDS may or may not be fantastic, but it is poorly "marketed" and for darn sure it doesn't get talked about much. Quite a lot of that may be due to the fact that the folks working on it are very busy trying to make it better and don't have time to do that important user outreach. Fedora does a pretty good job project-wide on the whole, but even we can have problems from time to time getting our important messages out. And FDS is a weird subproject that hasn't received a lot of love from the community, and has been more of a "throw it over the wall" contribution, albeit a really cool one. I think this is a user perspective that we can actually learn from. Every opinion is a chance to learn how we can improve outreach. Well, *almost* every opinion. :-) -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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