On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:29:07 AM UTC-8, Spencer Krum wrote: Hi Jon,
> My name is Spencer Krum. I am one of the authors of Pro Puppet. I want to thank you for going through the book with such a fine toothed comb. > I wish I had known you were so committed to making this book a success months ago. I would have gotten you an advance copy so you could > have helped make the final version better. What concerns me most is how Apress could have released a book with so many issues. Somehow their production process broke down. > From what I understand from Apress, we don't have the ability to directly address these problems in newly sold versions of the book. > These errors will be with us until a 3rd edition comes out, maybe sometime around Puppet 4. I'm sorry to hear that. That seems like a long time to wait. What's worse is that people who don't read this email list will have no idea that this book is full of issues. Even now, after I've been releasing these lists for ~2 weeks, the errata page on the Apress web site (http://www.apress.com/9781430260400) still says there are no errata for this book. That's not fair. > Here is what we can do. I have created a github repository to collect the errata in a single place. > https://github.com/pro-puppet/pro-puppet-errata > I don't think we can get that link added to the front matter, but we can probably get it added to the description of > the book on Amazon, and can link to it in the online/supplemental materials. This repository is one central place > we can collect all the errors/corrections about Pro Puppet 2n'd edition, not just yours. > I've already added your ch1-4 reviews to that project. Would you be willing to work on the rest of the chapters with us? Since I haven't received any money from Apress, nor will I request anything other than my own copy of the book (which they've now given me), I'm not inclined to formally work on this project (see below) > If you feel comfortable with git/github I can give you contributor access or I can add the text if you want to send it to me. > I think collecting all the errors in the github repository is a better solution than posting them all to separate messages > to the Puppet users mailing list, a list of over a thousand people. > What do you think? What I'm planning on doing is continuing on as I have been. I'm going to post my lists, chapter by chapter, to this list. You, and anybody else, are free to do whatever you want with them, such as putting them up on GitHub. I clearly label these postings so anyone who isn't interested in them can easily skip them. Is this a reasonable approach? Jon Forrest P.S. Have you considered putting the sources for Pro Puppet 2nd ed. up on GitHub the way Scott Chacon did for Pro Git? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/97ed6952-3d4c-46c6-8fc3-582375004ba8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
