CentOS docs - Feb 2011 - HowTo Document - Installing Nagios on CentOS 4x/5x

Hi. There's a note on this document (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios)
that it appears to be abandoned and unmaintained. Since I'm working through
the document to install Nagios, and taking fairly extensive notes on the
process, I would like to bring it up to date. But, since I've not worked on
an open source documentation project before, I'm not sure how to proceed.
Basically, I'm clueless right now. :-)? If someone could give me a little
guidance, I would greatly appreciate it!

A couple of initial questions: 

Do I need to attempt to contact the original author for permission to update and
maintain the document?

I've saved a copy to my local machine and I'm working on it there. Is
that the best way? How do I then submit the updated document for publication?

Anything else that would be good to know? :-)

Thanks in advance for any help here!

Jonathan Quist



      
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On 02/03/2011 08:49 PM, Jonathan Q. wrote:
> Hi. There's a note on this document 
> (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios) that it appears to be abandoned 
> and unmaintained. Since I'm working through the document to install 
> Nagios, and taking fairly extensive notes on the process, I would like 
> to bring it up to date. But, since I've not worked on an open source 
> documentation project before, I'm not sure how to proceed. Basically, 
> I'm clueless right now. :-)  If someone could give me a little 
> guidance, I would greatly appreciate it!
>
> A couple of initial questions:
>
> Do I need to attempt to contact the original author for permission to 
> update and maintain the document?
>
Generally speaking, it is polite to do so, yes. But technically speaking
- the whole content of the wiki is licensed under a "Creative Commons 
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License" so anyone ( more or less 
...) may edit it
- the page under discussion starts with "Note added 28 July 2010: This 
piece seems to be abandoned, is unmaintained" so I am sure that a new 
owner will be welcomed.
>
> I've saved a copy to my local machine and I'm working on it there.
Is
> that the best way? How do I then submit the updated document for 
> publication?
>
> Anything else that would be good to know? :-)
>
Actually it's pretty simple since it is a wiki and we encourage users to 
expand / fix it.
Since you are a newcomer I suggest the following approach:
- create an account in the wiki
- submit here your suggested changes ( for instance by posting a link to 
a page hosting your modified version of the page or simply listing the 
changes as list in the mail; any reasonable method would be)
- once the changes are reviewed, ask for permission to include them in 
the wiki
- an administrator will give you the appropriate rights
- fix it
- let everyone rejoice
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