<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Michael,<br></div>welcome !<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I would like to help contribute to the OI
project by doing whatever I can towards improving the state of OI's end
user documentation. I'm also willing to help with QA testing.<br></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the kind offer, this is great !<br></div><div>As Nikola pointed in his email setting up a repository and contribution guidelines for the existing documentation is an important task.<br></div><div>I am not sure it is the most efficient way to provide "hands-on" documentation though and may be tedious.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Currently I am reading my way through the OpenSolaris Bible and thought<br>
giving back to the community by writing some OI tutorials and end user<br>
documentation would be a great way to help solidify and increase my Unix<br>
admin knowledge.<br></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Following my previous comment, something to consider is to improve the OpenIndiana Handbook:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/OpenIndiana+Handbook">http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/OpenIndiana+Handbook</a><br><br></div><div>The aspect to consider are not only expanding the content but also using a revision control system as well as improving readability.<br><br></div><div>There are many other blog posts and spread out wiki pages out there: consolidating them little by little in one handbook like the *BSDs do would be very useful to help newcomers.<br><br></div><div>One could also consider feeding <a href="http://www.openindiana.org">www.openindiana.org</a> with posts to highlight administration tasks that may be specific to OI/illumos or emphasize on a change of behaviour (creation of ZFS dataset for each user directory, the change of sysidtool, ).<br></div><div>Expanded version of these posts could be later integrated to the handbook.<br><br></div><div>In any case I think one should be pragmatic and iterate nicely through reachable goals.<br></div><div>Priority IMHO should be on information that allow people to contribute/report better and changes affecting the administration on Hipster.<br></div><div>Best regards,<br><br></div><div>Aurelien<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>