<quote who="Paul W. Frields"> > 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. Agreed. > >> > 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. :-) Agreed. > -- > 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 > -- > fedora-docs-list mailing list > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
