11:47 a.m.
On 8/9/24 09:57, JK Laiho wrote:
Using modern Podman features requires scrounging together information
from scattered sources (the docs site, RedHat blogs, this mailing list,
Reddit, GitHub issues...) plus the ability to figure out what info is
still relevant. It's a sad state of affairs, and from an outsider's
perspective, there's no indication of any serious ongoing improvements
in this area either. Feature work looks to be proceeding nicely, but
without a massive undertaking to consolidate the documentation, update
it, and keep it up to date indefinitely, I don't see Podman getting
widely adopted. Docker has the mindshare, tons of resources, and their
documentation is thorough and up to date.
Thank you for sharing this candid
feedback, you mention a lot of
important points. Based on my experience in open-source in general:
This aren't an uncommon set of complaints unfortunately. ISTM like an
incentive problem. Maybe we need something like doc-update bounties or
improved recognition incentives of some kind.
In any case, I think we can/need to do better in this area. I'll raise
this with the team and do what I can to see that it gets more attention.
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Chris Evich (he/him)
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
If there's a "hard-way", I'm the first one to implement it.