Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread James Turnbull
Felix Frank wrote: > On 12/22/2010 06:03 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Felix Frank >> wrote: >> We accept many changes where people don't want to go through the overhead of supplying the patch themselves. If they do go to this extra effort for the

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Felix Frank
On 12/22/2010 06:03 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Felix Frank > wrote: > >>> We accept many changes where people don't want to go through the >>> overhead of supplying the patch themselves. >>> >>> If they do go to this extra effort for the project however, it's >>>

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Felix Frank wrote: >> We accept many changes where people don't want to go through the >> overhead of supplying the patch themselves. >> >> If they do go to this extra effort for the project however, it's >> greatly appreciated. > > Ah, but the current "contributi

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Peter Meier
> The sarcasm in the "maybe" overflowed my monitor and ruined a perfectly good > danish. It was the quintessential open source "forget you if you can't fix > it yourself" response. This is a user list - why would "be a developer" ever > be an appropriate response? If you didn't mean it that way, pe

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Disconnect
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Peter Meier wrote: > > Doesn't that seem .. I dunno.. insanely bad? > > I wrote *maybe* (you seem to be able to read...) so what's your problem? > > You wrote: > the best thing would be to open a documentation bug report. Oh and maybe > even supply a patch? > Th

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Felix Frank
On 12/22/2010 05:28 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Disconnect wrote: >> Wait, lets see if I understand the requirements for a 5 word addition to the >> documentation, from a user who doesn't already use git: >> 1: go to the page below >> 2: discover it requires git >>

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Disconnect wrote: > Wait, lets see if I understand the requirements for a 5 word addition to the > documentation, from a user who doesn't already use git: > 1: go to the page below > 2: discover it requires git > 3: figure out what git is > 4: install a git client

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Peter Meier
> Doesn't that seem .. I dunno.. insanely bad? I wrote *maybe* (you seem to be able to read...) so what's your problem? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsub

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Martijn Grendelman
Hi, I was aware of the 'Contribute' page, and it does indeed seem like a lot of work, even for a reasonably experienced Git user like myself. I will file a documentation bug. Thanks. Regards, Martijn. On 22-12-10 16:54, Disconnect wrote: > Wait, lets see if I understand the requirements for a

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Disconnect
Wait, lets see if I understand the requirements for a 5 word addition to the documentation, from a user who doesn't already use git: 1: go to the page below 2: discover it requires git 3: figure out what git is 4: install a git client 5: figure out how to use same 6: clone the entire repo (I just c

Re: [Puppet Users] Small documentation addition

2010-12-22 Thread Peter Meier
> Maybe it can be noted in the text, that on Debian and Ubuntu, the package > is called 'librrd-ruby'. the best thing would be to open a documentation bug report. Oh and maybe even supply a patch? http://docs.puppetlabs.com/contribute.html ~pete -- You received this message because you are sub