Judd Maltin (j...@newgoliath.com) wrote: > Furthermore, since every administrator I talk to asks me "Isn't Crowbar a > Dell-only project," I think it's a good idea to embrace the OpenCrowbar > project name.. much as SUSE is recognized by OpenSUSE, even in the press > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/11/19/2353236/opensuse-131-released-and-reviewed
I don't think the word "Crowbar" is to blame for this perception. Whether we call it "Crowbar", "OpenCrowbar", or something else, whilst there are really only two companies regularly contributing, the perception will remain. If there were tens of companies (or individuals outside SUSE/Dell) contributing, the perception would rapidly change. Bluntly, the root cause is a failure to grow the community. And this can only be fixed by addressing crucial components such as the website and documentation, which would make it easy for people to join the community. > Finally, there is so much documentation debt in the wiki, I'd be very happy > to just cut it loose. I don't understand this either. There isn't that much debt. It's actually pretty damn easy to delete old stuff; the problem is that noone ever does. I reckon a day-long docs hackathon could make huge inroads. And by "cut loose" you mean delete all the existing docs, or leave them to rot in the old github organization? If the former, we face the monumental task of rewriting docs from scratch, which is very unlikely to succeed given that so far we failed in the considerably smaller task of maintaining the existing docs. If the latter, then they will just continue to cause confusion. _______________________________________________ Crowbar mailing list Crowbar@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/
