[drraw-users] documentation, FAQ, wiki.. (Was: Trying to create a Grouped Dashboard with Templates Style Regex)

[Christophe Kalt]

On Dec 19, Eric Law wrote:
| On 12/18/06, David wrote:
| > On 12/18/06, Eric Law <ericslaw at gmail.com> wrote:
| > > Also, is there a wiki or somesuch where we can put some 'recipes' ?
| > > It seems that using this tool is still a bit of hit-n-miss to find all
| > > the work-arounds

work-around implies bugs.
i'd rather fix these, than document workarounds :-)

| > > and I'll have to learn and document them anyway....
| >
| > I don't believe there is one now, but I'll second that idea....
| >
| 
| Wonder what the top 5 questions are for a FAQ or cookbook might be.

Wondered this myself for a while, you can see from the
drraw-users archive how little traffic we get, and i've not
seen clear winners for a "top 5".
I do get some private mail, but it's pretty infrequent as
well.

| My multicolumn dashboard was not the first mistake I've made.
| I would also include tips on how to insure documenting the cases in
| which the RRD file being displayed on the graph does and does not show
| up in the graph title.
| (I still dont know the answer there... but have some templates that
| show it, and others that dont).

Templates should display it, Graphs clearly should not.
i seem to remember noticing it missing on occasion, but right
now, i can't find any such instance in our installation.


I'm not a big fan of wiki's or other similar solutions like
faq-o-matic, they still take dedication to keep clean and
maintain, although they do make it easy/easier for anyone to
write up something and immediately post it and see the result.

Every now and then, someone like you comes along, and
(rightly) complains about the documentation.  My answer's
always the same: i invite and encourage you to send me
updates.  i also always point out that you're in a great
position to make improvements, as you're still new to drraw
and things obvious to us still puzzle you to our amazement ;)

i don't remember ever getting help with the documentation.

Christophe