loggerhead

Can we have some decent documentation?

Asked by Redge

I like loggerhead: very slick. Only problem is I can't find decent documentation on it anywhere. As a result, I'm not really clear on some of the concepts of the program, or how it works. I'm not really sure of what is possible with it and what is not. I don't know how to properly configure it, or personalize the interface.

Is there a Loggerhead manual? If not, I'd advice you to create one: it will definitely save you time in the feature from having to answer questions (like this one).

Many thanks for your hard work.

Redge

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Redge (redgetrek) said : 		#1

Excuse the double posting: launchpad's interface is a bit confusing.

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Russel Winder (russel) said : 		#2

I'm afraid I'll have to second this point -- that Loggerhead is not well documented.

Using Google doesn't help as there isn't much out there, and what there is is old.

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Sergey Ponomarev (stokito) said : 		#3

http://wiki.flexion.org/LoggerheadServer.html

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Redge (redgetrek) said : 		#4

> http://wiki.flexion.org/LoggerheadServer.html

Already outdated. We need a more permanent sollution.

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Russel Winder (russel) said : 		#5

Looks like Loggerhead, despite being a potentially great product, is in the "the documentation is the source code, so read it" category :-(

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#6

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Russel Winder (russel) said : 		#7

And it seems no-one is interested in answering questions about Loggerhead either :-(

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Robert Collins (lifeless) said : 		#8

What do you mean? There was a discussion here. 'Questions' are not a good way to get changes to a product made - thats what bugs generally lead into. I think it would be great to have more docs - are you interested in writing them perhaps? Either way, this is really something to have as a bug, not a question.

The key thing here is that developers generally don't look at the questions area when planning/doing some work, and so things that need developer (vs peer users) input are best registered as bugs or on the mailing list.

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Russel Winder (russel) said : 		#9

There does seem to be something of a disconnect between what Launchpad documentation puts forward as "the right thing to do" and what teams actually do and find best as a process. For most projects, Questions appear to be a waste of time.

There doesn't seem to be a way to transform a Question to a Bug Report, unless "Create Bug report" does that, though I suspect ti will start a new one. I'll try it anyway.