Good Evening Guys, Let me start by saying that I really admire how far puppet has come in the last year or so, with the launch of the Enterprise version, Puppet Forge and the other innovations from within Puppet Labs, and in particular the community participation. I love the mailing list, even though I've been lurking for over a year. It's this "inner shame" that compels me to raise this issue. I apologise if this is not the place to mention this, but hey, you've already got this far, so keep reading!
I get stage fright looking at some of the "code fragments" that people post to the list and then say "This is how far I've got and I'm trying to do X" where X is something pretty complex/unique doesn't quite seem like best practice or something that you'll find on a general use linux box. While I have no problem or even issue with this, the problem I find is that when I tell my admin geek friends about puppet, they go to google and switch off when they see what they view as "buckets of work" to just get started. In a nutshell the perception and feedback I get and I feel this myself, is that the competency level of those whose regularly participate in this list, and in other internet forums may just be a bit too good. I feel as if puppet is lacking a sort of "nursery area". After all, everyone here is already a 'professional' or so we like to think! Would it be a good idea to have a puppet beginners list, where people can post dumb questions, and maybe have some patient people posting links to blog entries, you tube videos (something which I noticed is lacking for puppet, again making it hard for me to evangelise about it, to even get clients to look at it), and get up to speed with you guys. I would like a Puppet Nursery - Or failing that, can we get a puppet advance list? :) I'm just saying - It worked for a different project, that's part of how ubuntu started to take over the world, it just became accessible to the casual user. Well, there are a bucket load of causal professional linux admins, who I fear may dismiss taking up puppet because they just can't get the time together to learn or keep up with those who puppet 24/7 It's just an observation, with a request thrown in - If I annoyed you, upset you, hurt your ego or made you feel bad in any way, I'm sorry. If you wish to take it up with me personally, no problem, have your people call my people, and we'll set up the meet - I'm a big guy so bring backup! (just kidding, love peace and all that!) - I'm hoping to stimulate some conversation and debate - how can puppet be one of the first thoughts in the mind of someone who wants to manage from a 2 to 2 thousands machines? - Reach a critical mass amount casual users? Worked for Facebook, Twitter - not so much for Nokia but you get the point. SO! Techie Admin Genius People!! Let's Debate -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
