From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Kurth Subject: Re: Proposal - Add xe manpages to xen-org Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:21:12 +0100 Message-ID: <50607A68.2090604@xen.org> References: Reply-To: lars.kurth-LM2mM/qkH7s@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-api-bounces-GuqFBffKawuEi8DpZVb4nw@public.gmane.org Errors-To: xen-api-bounces-GuqFBffKawuEi8DpZVb4nw@public.gmane.org To: Grant McWilliams Cc: xen-devel-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org, xen-api-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Grant, this sounds like a fantastic idea. I will leave this for community discussion for now, and follow-up whether we need a formal vote in about a week's time. I guess there is also some detail to sort out such as repo name, exact location, anything legal (e.g. does the source have GPL headers), etc. Best Regards Lars On 24/09/2012 16:06, Grant McWilliams wrote: > Xen Community, > > I have a team of people frantically creating manpages for the xe > command and all of it's 361 subcommands. The initial source > documentation is in asciidoc but also saved as Docbook. From docbook > we transform to epub, html, manpage and pdf. This is currently being > hosted in a subversion server at a Seattle area college and we'd like > to move it to the xen-org github so it's public, can be reviewed, > commented on and contributed too. > > We will also document the additional commands specific to > xenserver/xcp (xe-edit-bootloader and others like it as time permits. > > For each section of commands we're also writing xcp tools that > describe how to script the xe command and use it's various > options/parameters. These tools have been a godsend in our own > administration so far and should be packages and distributed themselves. > > All of our documentation is created with future XSLT transforms being > able to include or remove sections with the Administration guide and > xe help in mind. > > This is an official proposal to add this project to xen-org. > > > Grant McWilliams > Professor of Computer Science > Edmonds Community College >