I reviewed a few chapters, and ask that they look at rewriting it months ago. It just posted a lot of config, without describing the design choices behind what they were doing. I also asked to have my name removed from the list of reviewers. I didn't want to be associated with it.
Looking forward to the upcoming book though. =) On 12/13/11 9:50 AM, "Mark Burgess" <m...@cfengine.com> wrote: >On 12/13/2011 03:47 PM, Christopher Browne wrote: >> 2011/12/13 Ted Zlatanov<t...@lifelogs.com>: >>> I reviewed some Packt books (SimpleDB, Cassandra, Perl, and other >>> topics) and could not write too many positive things. Besides spelling >>> and layout problems, the content was just not very good. So this is >>>not >>> a problem with just the CFEngine book from them, in my opinion. >> I know an author that released through Packt; the book was rather >> good, and entirely well-received by the relevant community, but he >> wasn't very pleased with the experience of dealing with Packt. Alas, >> he didn't want to be very specific about the details, just said he'd >> not work with them again. >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-cfengine mailing list >> Help-cfengine@cfengine.org >> https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > >This was an interesting story. I, and several others, were asked to >review this book early on, and gave feedback. >But then, after some remarks, we were cut out of the loop and suddenly >the book simply appeared. I have not yet >looked at the finished product, but it is nice to see a book on the >topic of CFEngine 3 out there, with another one coming. > >M >_______________________________________________ >Help-cfengine mailing list >Help-cfengine@cfengine.org >https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
