Messaging to new users

2015-07-01 Thread Tim Penhey
I have been wondering for a while how we message to new users. I raise this because I see quite a few messages on stack overflow that go something like this: "I'm really new to Juju and I'm trying to set up MaaS." I feel that if we are getting to this, we are doing something wrong. Perhaps we

Re: Messaging to new users

2015-07-01 Thread José Antonio Rey
Unfortunately there is no easy way. Even though the docs are quite clear people are always looking to have a bit of human interaction. Hence, the questions on IRC. I think it's just a matter of us being humans and trying to reach another human. As I mentioned, the docs are quite clear and understan

Re: Messaging to new users

2015-07-02 Thread Mario Splivalo
Hi, Jose! Probably there should be a 'introduction to maas' or 'maas by example' which would help new users to get started with new MAAS cluster in KVM virtual machines - I'm assuming not a lot of newcomers have several bare-metal boxes lying around just to play with MAAS. There is a very good bl

Re: Messaging to new users

2015-07-02 Thread Nick Veitch
I don't think it is a docs thing. The https://jujucharms.com/get-started page doesn't even mention MAAS, the test runthrough is provider-agnostic and the install page only mentions MAAS alongside a number of other cloud providers. I think the culprit may be google - historically there were a lot of

Re: Messaging to new users

2015-07-02 Thread Kapil Thangavelu
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Tim Penhey wrote: > I have been wondering for a while how we message to new users. > > I raise this because I see quite a few messages on stack overflow that > go something like this: > >"I'm really new to Juju and I'm trying to set up MaaS." > > I feel that if