Re: Xen document day (Oct 12 or 26)

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:36:23PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
> Let me know, which date you agreed on. We could do a poll.

Please do a pool. I posted two dates, but other ones could work as well.

> We should publish on the blog a bit before.

Ok.
> Also, how can I help?

In lots of ways. There is a lot of things that we want to do - but
I don't think we can do _all_ of them. Can you help us determine what
ought to have a higher priority?


> Regards
> Lars
> 
> On 29/09/2011 15:22, Joseph Glanville wrote:
> >
> >On 30 September 2011 00:13, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi
> ><mailto:pasik@iki.fi>> wrote:
> >
> >    On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:06:18AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >    > Part of what we brainstormed at Xen Hackathon was what we could
> >    do make Xen easier.
> >    >
> >    > And the one thing that seemed to surface up was making the docs
> >    better - either
> >    > be the Wiki or the three .pdfs that get created/shipped with Xen.
> >    >
> >    > One thought was to come up with a Documention Day - where
> >    volunteers would try to
> >    > fix up some portion of the documentation that they feel they have
> >    > a good grasp of knowledge off and are willing to change (and
> >    also look
> >    > to be incorrect)
> >    >
> >    > What do you guys think of Oct 12th or Oct 26 as a day for this?
> >    >
> >    > And then the next question - what page/pdf section interests you?
> >    >
> >    > http://bits.xensource.com/Xen/docs/user.pdf
> >    > http://www.rites.uic.edu/~solworth/xenInterfaceManual.pdf
> >    <http://www.rites.uic.edu/%7Esolworth/xenInterfaceManual.pdf> [the
> >    one on Xen.org is an older version]
> >    >
> >    > Or Wiki pages:
> >    > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/
> >    >
> >    > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels
> >    > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole
> >    > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> >    > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems
> >    >
> >    > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Consulting
> >    > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Consultants
> >    > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VpsHostingWithXen
> >    >
> >    > http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenPCIpassthrough
> >    > http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/VTdHowTo
> >    >
> >
> >    Some more related pages:
> >    http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Xen4.0
> >    http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Xen4.1
> >    http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenKernelFeatures
> >    http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> >    http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenHypervisorBootOptions
> >
> >    Also there's something completely new that we should document:
> >    How to install Xen VMs! which means document all the relevant methods:
> >    boot the native distro installer as PV guest, as HVM guest,
> >    xen-tools, virt-install,
> >    debootstrap, rpmstart, etc..
> >
> >    That's something people ask about very often..
> >
> >Agreed.
> >
> >After working through a bunch of the pages I think we are going to
> >have to have a realtime collab session to decide on some way of
> >reorganising everything into categories.
> >
> >
> >
> >    -- Pasi
> >
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