On 26/04/2017 13:12, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 26/04/17 10:32, Samuli Seppänen wrote: >> >> So I made the anchor visible: >> >> <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/FAQ> >> >> Not necessarily very pretty, but should help users figure out which FAQ >> item they should click on. > > It's not too ugly. But I spotted something far more crucially > important. Lots of the information is aged, not necessarily correct and > some needs to be updated. > > Like, RPM packaging. Using rpmbuild on tar.gz packages might work. > However, the openvpn.spec(.in) file we have is basically unmaintained. > It does not tackle the new world of systemd specifics (which impacts at > least RHEL/Fedora and SUSE). There are also more RPM based distros, > which I have little knowledge of. I would rather suggest we skip > providing this file. Each distro have their own packaging guidelines > and preferences how to do things. We should rather point users at those > maintained .spec files instead. > > The IPv6 entry is also in desperate need of an update. > > The bridging entries can be unified (at least have a common entry point, > where to dive deeper). And it should also include a pointer to > http://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/BridgingAndRouting ... And we > really should as much as possible lead people away from bridging; it is > really not the right solution for most of our (community) users. > > We should probably also have another group of entries, "Networking" ... > > That's just the 5 minutes review of this page .... It's a good starting > point, but I think we should improve it a lot. And I call for help > from the community! ;-) > > Join the #openvpn IRC channel on FreeNode ... and we can discuss these > entries and how to organize things there. (Nicks to really pay > attention to are: ecrist, krzee, danhunsaker, ordex, plaisthos, syzzer, > cron2, dazo - probably a few more, but those are at least a starting point) > >
+1 to everything. The FAQ items have not been maintained very actively in many, many years. Many of them could probably be scrapped altogether. For example, some probably still refer to Windows 2000. Going through them in a IRC session would one option. -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock
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