On May 23, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
> Book review is very costly. Several days, to weeks, depending how thorough > you are, and how much free time you have, etc. Do we really want to > introduce this sort of bottleneck? When I commented earlier I was not thinking of putting any hard barriers like committer status. I was merely thinking about books that can be written in couple days, with very poor english, terrible formatting and that could be out of scope despite a "cloudstack" title. We don't want those books listed anywhere. A blanket approval for listing books is not a good idea, we need a minimal sanity check. -sebastien > > > On 23 May 2013 16:27, Musayev, Ilya <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Perhaps we can revisit the thought of making it commiter written VS >> comitters reviewed. >> >> As error safeguard measure it would make sense if have at least 3 >> commiters review the publication. >> >> Reason being, while many of us are comitters, some of us maybe more >> competent in some areas of ACS and less on the other. Therefore if we have >> several comitters review the publication, we minimize the error posibilty. >> if i was to make an example, i've spent alot of time building private >> clouds that would suit traditional enterprises, i may not be an expert on >> designing web hosting shops (just yet). >> >> Obviously exclusions apply, if someone have spent many years as a core ACS >> architect and developer - he may not need several commiters to review the >> publication - though it would not hurt. >> >> The commiters who will be reviewing publication must notify the community >> via mailing list. If there are points of uncertainty, the should be >> brought on ML as well. >> >> >> >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Noah Slater <[email protected]> >> Date: >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Packt Book - Publish on our website? >> >> >> On 23 May 2013 05:05, John Kinsella <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On May 22, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Books authored by committers might be a good metric. >>> >>> +1 >>> >> >> I think this is exclusionary. As Kelcey points out, there's a high >> probability that some of the best books on CloudStack are not written by >> committers. >> >> >> On 23 May 2013 07:06, Sebastien Goasguen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Let me put it bluntly. IMHO wiki pages are a death sentence, nobody will >>> find that information. >>> If it's not featured on the website then there is no point talking about >>> it. >> >> >> Blunt, but hyperbolic. ;) If you really feel so strongly about the wiki, >> you should propose that we shut it down. ;) >> >> The wiki is a community resource, and we should embrace that, and encourage >> that. >> >> If you're concerned that people visiting the main website will not notice, >> and will never find, a page that lists third-party resources, then I >> suggest a patch that provides a link in the nav saying "third-party >> resources" and link it to the wiki. >> >> -- >> NS >> > > > > -- > NS
