Ok so after a 28 round bout with the developers regarding the lack of support, poor documentation and overall buggy performance of these two crap mods, (see http://drupal.org/node/1248574 for more details) I am warning the rest of the Drupal community. Do not install these programs. They do not work as advertised and the documentation is left to chance as anyone can edit their wiki based guidance. They actually have the "gonads" to ask folks who take the time to fix this buggy crap to go further and update their wiki.

When users and admins point out the issues they either call them names like trolls or push them off to other good modders who take the blame for their crap work. (See http://drupal.org/node/1182976 for more on this), These good modders provide Drupal users and admins with fixes instead of excuses while the developers for provision and hostmaster take no ownership for any issues that their users bring up by calling people names or not responding at all.

I absolutely love drupal but absolutely hate poor modders like the crap developers who created provision and hostmaster. Both these projects should be banned from Drupal for download. They provide minimal benefit yet your asked to provide them your database admin password and other serious credentials for minimal gain in managing multiple Drupal sites.

Again, these crappy developers should be banned from Drupal until they can prove that their crap mod works on all the systems they claim. They must be made to prove their crap can be used for any "Platform" other than a base install of Drupal 6 or 7. They must be able to prove that profiles work instead of blaming good install profile developers like OpenAtrium.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Category: bug » support
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)
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blueprint commented

This post is utter nonsense. The documentation at http://community.aegirproject.org is excellent.

The code in provision and hostmaster is generally elegant object oriented code. The main developers are providing valuable infrastructure (if you use debian or ubuntu the packages can be simply apt-get installed).

My company newthinking.de runs 5 instances of aegir with about 10 different profiles. Aegir, simply put, makes us money.

It is however a set of modules and command line tools which require administrative knowledge! It is certainly NOT up to the developers of aegir to prove anything to someone who cannot even get the modules properly installed.

Kind regards,
Mark