Re: Automatic referral chasing

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@OpenLDAP.org>]

Taymour A. El Erian wrote:
> Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > Taymour A. El Erian wrote:
> >
> >  
> > > The docs of openldap are really not clear
> > >     
> >
> > I suggest you make more precise statements: what's not clear, and how
> > should it be improved.  Otherwise your statement is simply offensive
> > with respect to the many persons that voluntarily (i.e. without being
> > paid, and often out of their little spare time) dedicated to writing the
> > documentation.  In fact, as developers, we shouldn't care too much about
> > documenting our work.  All in all, we can read the code, and we already
> > know how it works, so we shouldn't care too much about your needs as
> > soon as they do not match ours.  Note that I intentionally ignored your
> > question, since it has been answered many times, as you may find out by
> > searching the archives, and answering it once more seemed to be a real
> > waste of time that I could have dedicated to improving the documents, if
> > I received a valid feedback about where improvement is needed.
> >
> > p.
> >
> >
> >   
> Pierangelo,
>
>    I don't want to get into a debate about the importance of 
> documentation, but documentation is really one of the most important 
> things about software. If you as a developer understand the code, this 
> doesn't mean the code is usable since most of those who use it are not 
> developers and do not know how to read the code. Everybody appreciates 
> the time and effort given by the developers. The administrator guide has 
> no mention of the overlays (at least not chain) and the man pages do not 
> give enough description, also the administrator guide could add examples 
> for some configurations, maybe like those ones being asked in the 
> mailing list.

These may just magically appear if we wish hard enough, but in reality 
someone has to write them. You've written a nice long paragraph above, 
which is probably longer than the text needed to document some missing 
information. Nice use of your time.

> I really searched for my question a lot in the list but could not find it.
>
> Thank you anyway.
>  

These are all just about done and the new Admin Guide will be out when
2.4 is out of Beta.

You can download 2.4.5 beta as of today and see the new docs for
yourself (they are still wip).

As always, this is a community effort, so please reply with a list of
"I'd love to see in the docs"

There's nothing I hate more than people using community developed
software, complaining and not contributing.

Gavin.

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Kind Regards,

Gavin Henry.
OpenLDAP Engineering Team.

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