Some feedback

[tsi]

Hi guys,

First thanks a lot for this. I used it on my last (current) Kubuntu install (15.04) and it works great.

I do have some feedback, if you want it, if anything in here deserves it, I can open a separate issue for it.

• Gmail user and password - that's a scary and suspicious moment, it needs a better explanation and maybe even a 'skip' option.
• Node.js - better be installed via NVM, don't you think? I had to remove and re-install it.
• Compass - didn't install until I've installed ruby-dev.
• Aliases - don't you think they better be commented so people know what they do?
• Documentation - there must be a list somewhere of what is included, and about to be installed - I didn't find it and had to go over the script.

Don't get me wrong though, other then these minor things - this is a great project and I will use it again!

[itsdarrylnorris]

• Gmail and Password - this is an open source project I thought that it would be scary if you can add your own e-mail and password if you know what it does. However, for someone that does not bash it can be scary you are right.
• Nodejs, did not work for you ? I think I try to use NVM and did not work for me.
• Documentation - The closed it thing for documentation is this post https://www.darrylnorris.com/blog/lazy-dubuntu-alpha-release , I would agree that I can improve the documentation of this project.

I would add an skip option for the gmail;however, the dev environment would not be able to send e-mails.
Can you provide me a patch or the exact instruction to install, Compass, NodeJS ?

If you think you can provide me some good documentation a patch for that is welcome as well.

I'm happy that you have test this out on 15.04, because I have not try it out on that environment. Thank you so much for the feedback.

[tsi]

Sorry, I didn't get the point about the gmail username & password.
For Compass, I just needed to install ruby-dev with apt-get and then I could install compass with gem install compass.
About node, when installing from the repo, you must run npm as root, which is wrong, I used the commands here to install NVM.
I'll try to find the time to help with some patches.
Thanks!

[itsdarrylnorris]

I'm sorry, I was sleep when I wrote that.

What I mean....

Since, this is an open source project, everyone can see the code. If something like that is a concern, they can google it and find that the easier way ( i think) to setup ssmtp is with gmail. However, if someone does not have the expertise to understand why/or how the gmail and password is been ask I would understand that it might be scary.

Does this makes more sense?