What about a screencast series? On Feb 2, 6:08 pm, Michael DeHaan <mich...@reductivelabs.com> wrote: > Just one more email and I'll let you go for a few hours :) > > One of the things I like to see in apps is that they are immediately > intuitive and easy to use for new users. I think Puppet is really good > here, but there's opportunity to make everything better. We want > everyone to love Puppet from their first few minutes using it, all the > way through to datacenter nirvana. > > With Puppet, if you're just learning it, what were some of your > stumbling blocks? If you are an existing user, think back to that > time, or times when you were talking with new users? > > One of the ideas I had from cobbler was "cobbler check" which was a tool > you could run to identify some of these problems. I'm not sure if it > makes sense for Puppet, but it may do some things like say "you appear > to have DNS problems resolving this, you should try..." and so forth. > What else might there be? Obviously one of the things I'm going to be > looking for are what questions keep coming up on IRC ... Are there > mainly questions around puppetca? Should scaling be easier to set up > out of the box and in the default configuration (right after RPM or deb > install)? > > Are there easy additions or changes to the software we can make to make > error messages clearer and self-resolving? Obvious things in the > documentation/manpages we can clean up? (Aside: I think Puppet > Dashboard has a LOT of opportunity to help with this too, so watch this > space!) > > I'm going to be looking into this myself, but I'd love to hear from > you. Any and all data is welcome. (If you'd prefer to reply > personally or talk over IRC, that's fine too.) > > Thanks! > > --Michael
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