Helping Out

Re: Helping Out

Brett Meadors wrote:
> I have been reading up and begun helping out with the portage project 
> with their documentation, and I would really like to get involved with 
> the Documentation team as both a active contributor and editor. Please 
> let me know what I can do to help, what projects need some attention, 
> and how I can be of help.

Speaking of Portage . . . one of the things with Portage 2.2, which is 
now in ~arch, is that our Portage Handbook and related documentation in 
gentoo.org/doc/en/ will need to be updated. 2.2, once stable, will give 
everyone capabilities like user-defined sets, new behavior of the world 
and system sets, FEATURES like preserve-rebuild (or whatever they ended 
up calling it), and more.

Though I've heard via third parties that some of the Portage developers 
plan to help out with updating this documentation, we haven't heard from 
them yet. So, if you want to, head on over to the GDP page, at 
http://gdp.gentoo.org. We have resources there on how to write GuideXML. 
Armed with this knowledge, you'd be ready to tackle the updates needed 
for the Portage handbook, which starts here:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=2

Lots and lots of stuff to jump into. Or, if you'd rather take a break 
from Portage docs, just jump into bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) and 
search for open Documentation and Docs-user bugs that are assigned 
to/CCed to docs-team <at> gentoo.org. Just poke at whatever you want to do; 
any and all help is welcome. Happy hunting.

Re: Helping Out

Josh Saddler wrote:
> Brett Meadors wrote:
>> I have been reading up and begun helping out with the portage project 
>> with their documentation, and I would really like to get involved with 
>> the Documentation team as both a active contributor and editor. Please 
>> let me know what I can do to help, what projects need some attention, 
>> and how I can be of help.
> 
> Speaking of Portage . . . one of the things with Portage 2.2, which is 
> now in ~arch, is that our Portage Handbook and related documentation in 
> gentoo.org/doc/en/ will need to be updated. 2.2, once stable, will give 
> everyone capabilities like user-defined sets, new behavior of the world 
> and system sets, FEATURES like preserve-rebuild (or whatever they ended 
> up calling it), and more.
> 
> Though I've heard via third parties that some of the Portage developers 
> plan to help out with updating this documentation, we haven't heard from 
> them yet. So, if you want to, head on over to the GDP page, at 
> http://gdp.gentoo.org. We have resources there on how to write GuideXML. 
> Armed with this knowledge, you'd be ready to tackle the updates needed 
> for the Portage handbook, which starts here:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=2
> 
> Lots and lots of stuff to jump into. Or, if you'd rather take a break 
> from Portage docs, just jump into bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) and 
> search for open Documentation and Docs-user bugs that are assigned 
> to/CCed to docs-team <at> gentoo.org. Just poke at whatever you want to do; 
> any and all help is welcome. Happy hunting.
> 
Josh,

I was told to talk to you about gentoo related graphics.  I have a hardened badge I made for our main site, that
might be cool to include on 
the graphics page, since there are no hardened badges that I have seen.  Here's a direct link. 
http://www.liquidustech.com/media_files/images/powered_by_hardened_gentoo_badge.png

Still could use some more work, but its a good start.

Brett,

My company has two grad students technical writing interns working on Gentoo docs this summer.  I know they
would love some additional 
assistance.  Currently we are working on SAN Multipath doc with Joshua Jackson (tsunam), some hardened
gentoo docs, bluetooth doc updates, 
autotools doc creation, and himerge (portage gui) docs.  If any of these sound interesting, please contact
me.  There is aways room for more 
too.  I would personally like to be a part of updating the portage docs.

Best Regards,

Matthew Summers
-- 
Matthew W. Summers

Chief Executive Officer & Systems Engineer
Liquidus Tech, LLC
218 1/2 Park Central West
Springfield, MO 65806
(417) 894-2607
matthew.summers <at> liquidustech.com
www.liquidustech.com
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Re: Helping Out

Matthew Summers; CEO, Liquidus Tech, LLC wrote:
> Josh,
> 
> I was told to talk to you about gentoo related graphics.  I have a 
> hardened badge I made for our main site, that might be cool to include 
> on the graphics page, since there are no hardened badges that I have 
> seen.  Here's a direct link. 
> http://www.liquidustech.com/media_files/images/powered_by_hardened_gentoo_badge.png 

Done, thanks for the artwork!

Check http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/graphics.xml

RE: Helping Out

Hey Matt, I would be glad to help out in some regard or another, possibly with updating documentation. In
concerns with portage, they've been wanting me to help get the documents converted from man pages to
Doc-book, so if you have any interest with that, I'd be more than glad to coordinate with you on it.

Brett Meadors
Student Assistant I
HEHD Technical Support
(864)940-7711


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Summers; CEO, Liquidus Tech, LLC [mailto:matthew.summers <at> liquidustech.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 12:38 PM
To: gentoo-doc <at> lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Brett Meadors
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Helping Out

Josh Saddler wrote:
> Brett Meadors wrote:
>> I have been reading up and begun helping out with the portage project 
>> with their documentation, and I would really like to get involved with 
>> the Documentation team as both a active contributor and editor. Please 
>> let me know what I can do to help, what projects need some attention, 
>> and how I can be of help.
> 
> Speaking of Portage . . . one of the things with Portage 2.2, which is 
> now in ~arch, is that our Portage Handbook and related documentation in 
> gentoo.org/doc/en/ will need to be updated. 2.2, once stable, will give 
> everyone capabilities like user-defined sets, new behavior of the world 
> and system sets, FEATURES like preserve-rebuild (or whatever they ended 
> up calling it), and more.
> 
> Though I've heard via third parties that some of the Portage developers 
> plan to help out with updating this documentation, we haven't heard from 
> them yet. So, if you want to, head on over to the GDP page, at 
> http://gdp.gentoo.org. We have resources there on how to write GuideXML. 
> Armed with this knowledge, you'd be ready to tackle the updates needed 
> for the Portage handbook, which starts here:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=2

> 
> Lots and lots of stuff to jump into. Or, if you'd rather take a break 
> from Portage docs, just jump into bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) and 
> search for open Documentation and Docs-user bugs that are assigned 
> to/CCed to docs-team <at> gentoo.org. Just poke at whatever you want to do; 
> any and all help is welcome. Happy hunting.
> 
Josh,

I was told to talk to you about gentoo related graphics.  I have a hardened badge I made for our main site, that
might be cool to include on 
the graphics page, since there are no hardened badges that I have seen.  Here's a direct link. 
http://www.liquidustech.com/media_files/images/powered_by_hardened_gentoo_badge.png


Still could use some more work, but its a good start.


Brett,

My company has two grad students technical writing interns working on Gentoo docs this summer.  I know they
would love some additional 
assistance.  Currently we are working on SAN Multipath doc with Joshua Jackson (tsunam), some hardened
gentoo docs, bluetooth doc updates, 
autotools doc creation, and himerge (portage gui) docs.  If any of these sound interesting, please contact
me.  There is aways room for more 
too.  I would personally like to be a part of updating the portage docs.

Best Regards,

Matthew Summers
-- 
Matthew W. Summers

Chief Executive Officer & Systems Engineer
Liquidus Tech, LLC
218 1/2 Park Central West
Springfield, MO 65806
(417) 894-2607
matthew.summers <at> liquidustech.com
www.liquidustech.com

Nagios 3 guide

Hi Matthew

As I said on https://bugs.gentoo.org/131942 I'm going to focus my
attention on a document about Nagios and Gentoo. I don't know if you
or one of your colleagues is already working on Nagios documentation
for Gentoo?

My focus is not on Nagios itself - we don't need to document Nagios,
they have documentation editors themselves. However, the document
would focus on installing Nagios on the master server, installing the
necessary plugins on the clients, configuring nrpe/check_ssh on Gentoo
systems and integrating Gentoo-specific metrics.

Can you tell me if you know someone already working on similar documentation?

Wkr,
  Sven Vermeulen
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Re: Helping Out

Brett,
This sounds doable. So,have you already extracted the man pages? Can you send me a tarball 
containing what you have, I would like to help out with this.  I can be found on IRC as well using 
the nick "quantumsummers", usually in gentoo-hardened, gentoo-userrel all the time. Lets try to get 
something moving on this as soon as you have the time. I can move the interns around fairly easily, 
so we can be flexible.  Look forward to it!

Cheers,
Matt

Brett Meadors wrote:
> Hey Matt, I would be glad to help out in some regard or another, possibly with updating documentation. In
concerns with portage, they've been wanting me to help get the documents converted from man pages to
Doc-book, so if you have any interest with that, I'd be more than glad to coordinate with you on it.
> 
> Brett Meadors
> Student Assistant I
> HEHD Technical Support
> (864)940-7711
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Summers; CEO, Liquidus Tech, LLC [mailto:matthew.summers <at> liquidustech.com] 
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 12:38 PM
> To: gentoo-doc <at> lists.gentoo.org
> Cc: Brett Meadors
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Helping Out
> 
> Josh Saddler wrote:
>> Brett Meadors wrote:
>>> I have been reading up and begun helping out with the portage project 
>>> with their documentation, and I would really like to get involved with 
>>> the Documentation team as both a active contributor and editor. Please 
>>> let me know what I can do to help, what projects need some attention, 
>>> and how I can be of help.
>> Speaking of Portage . . . one of the things with Portage 2.2, which is 
>> now in ~arch, is that our Portage Handbook and related documentation in 
>> gentoo.org/doc/en/ will need to be updated. 2.2, once stable, will give 
>> everyone capabilities like user-defined sets, new behavior of the world 
>> and system sets, FEATURES like preserve-rebuild (or whatever they ended 
>> up calling it), and more.
>>
>> Though I've heard via third parties that some of the Portage developers 
>> plan to help out with updating this documentation, we haven't heard from 
>> them yet. So, if you want to, head on over to the GDP page, at 
>> http://gdp.gentoo.org. We have resources there on how to write GuideXML. 
>> Armed with this knowledge, you'd be ready to tackle the updates needed 
>> for the Portage handbook, which starts here:
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=2
>>
>> Lots and lots of stuff to jump into. Or, if you'd rather take a break 
>> from Portage docs, just jump into bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) and 
>> search for open Documentation and Docs-user bugs that are assigned 
>> to/CCed to docs-team <at> gentoo.org. Just poke at whatever you want to do; 
>> any and all help is welcome. Happy hunting.
>>
> Josh,
> 
> I was told to talk to you about gentoo related graphics.  I have a hardened badge I made for our main site, that
might be cool to include on 
> the graphics page, since there are no hardened badges that I have seen.  Here's a direct link. 
> http://www.liquidustech.com/media_files/images/powered_by_hardened_gentoo_badge.png
> 
> Still could use some more work, but its a good start.
> 
> 
> Brett,
> 
> My company has two grad students technical writing interns working on Gentoo docs this summer.  I know they
would love some additional 
> assistance.  Currently we are working on SAN Multipath doc with Joshua Jackson (tsunam), some hardened
gentoo docs, bluetooth doc updates, 
> autotools doc creation, and himerge (portage gui) docs.  If any of these sound interesting, please
contact me.  There is aways room for more 
> too.  I would personally like to be a part of updating the portage docs.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Matthew Summers

-- 
Matthew W. Summers

Chief Executive Officer & Systems Engineer
Liquidus Tech, LLC
218 1/2 Park Central West
Springfield, MO 65806
(417) 894-2607
matthew.summers <at> liquidustech.com
www.liquidustech.com
--

-- 
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RE: Helping Out

I haven't had the chance to yet. I'm working off campus(which is where my working machines are) so I'm
working through a slow VPN, but I will be more than glad to start extracting them Monday when I get to work :). 

Brett Meadors
Student Assistant I
HEHD Technical Support
(864)940-7711


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Summers; CEO, Liquidus Tech, LLC [mailto:matthew.summers <at> liquidustech.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 1:01 PM
To: Brett Meadors
Cc: gentoo-doc <at> lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Helping Out

Brett,
This sounds doable. So,have you already extracted the man pages? Can you send me a tarball 
containing what you have, I would like to help out with this.  I can be found on IRC as well using 
the nick "quantumsummers", usually in gentoo-hardened, gentoo-userrel all the time. Lets try to get 
something moving on this as soon as you have the time. I can move the interns around fairly easily, 
so we can be flexible.  Look forward to it!

Cheers,
Matt


Brett Meadors wrote:
> Hey Matt, I would be glad to help out in some regard or another, possibly with updating documentation. In
concerns with portage, they've been wanting me to help get the documents converted from man pages to
Doc-book, so if you have any interest with that, I'd be more than glad to coordinate with you on it.
> 
> Brett Meadors
> Student Assistant I
> HEHD Technical Support
> (864)940-7711
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Summers; CEO, Liquidus Tech, LLC [mailto:matthew.summers <at> liquidustech.com] 
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 12:38 PM
> To: gentoo-doc <at> lists.gentoo.org
> Cc: Brett Meadors
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Helping Out
> 
> Josh Saddler wrote:
>> Brett Meadors wrote:
>>> I have been reading up and begun helping out with the portage project 
>>> with their documentation, and I would really like to get involved with 
>>> the Documentation team as both a active contributor and editor. Please 
>>> let me know what I can do to help, what projects need some attention, 
>>> and how I can be of help.
>> Speaking of Portage . . . one of the things with Portage 2.2, which is 
>> now in ~arch, is that our Portage Handbook and related documentation in 
>> gentoo.org/doc/en/ will need to be updated. 2.2, once stable, will give 
>> everyone capabilities like user-defined sets, new behavior of the world 
>> and system sets, FEATURES like preserve-rebuild (or whatever they ended 
>> up calling it), and more.
>>
>> Though I've heard via third parties that some of the Portage developers 
>> plan to help out with updating this documentation, we haven't heard from 
>> them yet. So, if you want to, head on over to the GDP page, at 
>> http://gdp.gentoo.org. We have resources there on how to write GuideXML. 
>> Armed with this knowledge, you'd be ready to tackle the updates needed 
>> for the Portage handbook, which starts here:
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=2

>>
>> Lots and lots of stuff to jump into. Or, if you'd rather take a break 
>> from Portage docs, just jump into bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) and 
>> search for open Documentation and Docs-user bugs that are assigned 
>> to/CCed to docs-team <at> gentoo.org. Just poke at whatever you want to do; 
>> any and all help is welcome. Happy hunting.
>>
> Josh,
> 
> I was told to talk to you about gentoo related graphics.  I have a hardened badge I made for our main site, that
might be cool to include on 
> the graphics page, since there are no hardened badges that I have seen.  Here's a direct link. 
> http://www.liquidustech.com/media_files/images/powered_by_hardened_gentoo_badge.png

> 
> Still could use some more work, but its a good start.
> 
> 
> Brett,
> 
> My company has two grad students technical writing interns working on Gentoo docs this summer.  I know they
would love some additional 
> assistance.  Currently we are working on SAN Multipath doc with Joshua Jackson (tsunam), some hardened
gentoo docs, bluetooth doc updates, 
> autotools doc creation, and himerge (portage gui) docs.  If any of these sound interesting, please
contact me.  There is aways room for more 
> too.  I would personally like to be a part of updating the portage docs.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Matthew Summers

-- 
Matthew W. Summers

Chief Executive Officer & Systems Engineer
Liquidus Tech, LLC
218 1/2 Park Central West
Springfield, MO 65806
(417) 894-2607
matthew.summers <at> liquidustech.com
www.liquidustech.com

Re: Nagios 3 guide

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 17:54 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> Hi Matthew
> 
> As I said on https://bugs.gentoo.org/131942 I'm going to focus my
> attention on a document about Nagios and Gentoo. I don't know if you
> or one of your colleagues is already working on Nagios documentation
> for Gentoo?
> 
> My focus is not on Nagios itself - we don't need to document Nagios,
> they have documentation editors themselves. However, the document
> would focus on installing Nagios on the master server, installing the
> necessary plugins on the clients, configuring nrpe/check_ssh on Gentoo
> systems and integrating Gentoo-specific metrics.
> 
> Can you tell me if you know someone already working on similar documentation?

If you need any technical assistance with this, let me know.  I'm *very*
familiar with Nagios and integrating it with Gentoo.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Games Developer

Re: Nagios 3 guide

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2 <at> gentoo.org> wrote:
> If you need any technical assistance with this, let me know.  I'm *very*
> familiar with Nagios and integrating it with Gentoo.

Always. I'm not familiar with Nagios (only on lappy and lguest test
images) so any help is appreciated. I just committed my current draft
state (not much, but it shows the structure I'm hoping to go with as
well as the content I want to address in the guide).

What I definitely need is some input on monitoring other systems (the
NRPE plugin, with SSL, and check_ssh) with information about the
differences between the methods (I suppose NRPE is a somewhat active
approach whereas check_ssh is more a passive "pull" approach).

You're free to edit the guide, even with just some <pre> tags to help
me with the technical stuff 

Also, this is not only targeted at Chris.

Wkr,
  Sven Vermeulen
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