Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 12:55:08 +0000 (GMT) From: eagle <eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net> To: Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Installation Guide Project [Was: Re: FreeBSD Adovcacy] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990404125300.1251G-100000@eagle.phc.igs.net> In-Reply-To: <3705E0A9.49257DF5@uswest.net>
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On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> OK, I can agree that the handbook could be clearer on a lot of > >>> issues. But why use that as a reason for starting a different effort? > >>> It seems to me that you could gain a whole lot by fixing the > >>> description in the handbook. And yes, you'll be welcome there :-) > >> > >> I think Don Wilde said it best when he said the "handbook tries to go > >> too many places." > > > >What does that mean? What does that say about including an > >installation guide in it? There is one there already. The best thing > >we can do for the FreeBSD community is to ensure that it's good, not > >to cry "NIH" and do (y)our own thing. > > I was commended for my idea by more than a couple of well-knowns in > the community. Now people doubt that it would be a good idea at all, > that it would reinvent the wheel or undermine existing resources. > Between that and the indecisive nature of charters and unorganized > structures of services and resources it's enough to make me just > throw my hands up and walk away from it, just forget about any active > contribution. > > So you tell me, what should I do? Disregard everyone's comments and > do what I want how I want and hope that maybe, just maybe, someone > else might also benefit from something that made my life easier, or > should I sit here, defending my principals and debating my ideas, > trying to get the support of people that I should be able to rely on > for help and end up doing little more than grinding my motivations for > doing anything productive into the mud? > > I want to go forward with my idea and I hope that folks like Don Wilde > and Dan Langille can and will help me achieve my objectives. I also > want to be able to share my projects, but my ambitions aren't going to > fair well if I have to defend myself each time. > > Maybe this is a rant and maybe it's the result of not knowing all that > I should. But this *is* what I see and this *is* what I believe. Doesn't matter how good the idea is, somebody will always have negative comments, you can decide how you want to shut up the detractors, by writing the documentation and doing a good job of it, or walking away. I personnally hope you decide to go forward with it, good documentation goes a long way in getting people to use and enjoy freebsd and that is the whole point of advocacy is it not? rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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