Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread Craig Barratt
itismike, > Thanks Craig. Not sure what your email account is as you appear as a 'guest' > in this forum. My sourceforge name is the same as my username here. I'm not sure about your email either. You now have edit & admin privileges. Craig

[BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread itismike
Craig Barratt wrote: > itismike, > > You need a SourceForge account. Just email your SF user name to me. > > I'd love to completely open up the wiki, but SF's MediaWiki config > doesn't allow that. Apparently spam is too much of a problem. > > If someone wants to volunteer to have admin wiki

Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread Kris Lou
The Wiki would be a great place to host that CentOS/RHEL Howto that Max Hetrick originally created for the CentOS Wiki, but now is hosted/maintained by Sorin Sobu? If not, I believe I have an offline copy that I can forward to whomever has wiki access. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Oct

Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread Craig Barratt
itismike, > > If you have something to contribute to it, please do so! > > Thanks for the perspective and the encouragement. How does one go > about requesting editor permissions on the wiki? You need a SourceForge account. Just email your SF user name to me. I'd love to completely open up th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/21 11:52 , itismike wrote: > Thanks for the perspective and the encouragement. How does one go about > requesting editor permissions on the wiki? have you created an account? if you have; then the question is beyond me. I think there's been some changes that other people know more about tha

[BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread itismike
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > itismike, don't let me discourage you from writing doco on the GUI if you're > so inclined. A lot of people will appreciate it. > ... > ... > Fair enough. a 'quick start guide' may be appealing to a lot of people who > would like to try it out. > > There is a wiki

Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
itismike, don't let me discourage you from writing doco on the GUI if you're so inclined. A lot of people will appreciate it. On 10/21 10:19 , itismike wrote: > > > While the charm of OSS is that the code is easily accessible, I've found > > > that most of the documentation steps refer to editin

[BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread itismike
Thanks for your response, Carl. I'm not trying to start a flame war over command-line vs. GUI, but I thought this was an amusing exchange: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > itismike wrote: > > While the charm of OSS is that the code is easily accessible, I've found > > that most of the docume

[BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-21 Thread itismike
Thanks for your response, Carl. I'm not trying to start a flame war over command-line vs. GUI, but I thought this was an amusing exchange: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > itismike wrote: > > While the charm of OSS is that the code is easily accessible, I've found > > that most of the docume

Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-20 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/20 02:27 , itismike wrote: > While the charm of OSS is that the code is easily accessible, I've found > that most of the documentation steps refer to editing curly bracket > objects, which is great for developers, but not-so-great for everyday > administration: I and many other people do not

[BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

2010-10-20 Thread itismike
Hi guys. I'm excited to get backuppc configured but just have a couple n00b questions that I can't find answered. While the charm of OSS is that the code is easily accessible, I've found that most of the documentation steps refer to editing curly bracket objects, which is great for developers,