From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" Subject: Re: [REQUEST] Request for Hosting My Xen HowTo/Tutorial/Documentation on www.xen.org and Xen Wiki Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:28:39 +0800 Message-ID: <4F6958F7.9020501@gmail.com> References: <4F67FD45.7010309@gmail.com><1332255873.9223.323.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <4F689F70.1020203@gmail.com> 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-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: djmagee@mageenet.net Cc: "Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 21/03/2012 00:25, djmagee@mageenet.net wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org [mailto:xen-devel- >> bounces@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) >> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 11:17 AM >> To: Ian Campbell >> Cc: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming); David TECHER; xen-devel@lists.xen.org >> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [REQUEST] Request for Hosting My Xen >> HowTo/Tutorial/Documentation on www.xen.org and Xen Wiki >> >> On 20/03/2012 23:04, Ian Campbell wrote: >>> On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 03:45 +0000, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: >>>> Dear Xen admins, >>>> >>>> I have spent several days writing my Xen >> HowTo/Tutorial/Documentation >>>> and also testing the XL domain configuration files to make sure > they >>>> work. I have also verified that creating virtual machines with >> Virtual >>>> Machine Manager/libvirt works. I have done a lot of testing with my >>>> Xen documentation. >>> Thank you for taking the time to write this document, However I > don't >>> think PDF or HTML are appropriate methods for maintaining this >> document >>> as they are not easily editable by others. >>> >>> Please would you consider importing your content into wiki.xen.org >>> instead where it can be maintained easily by the community going >>> forward. >>> >>> Ian. >>> >>> >>> >> Dear Ian, >> >> How about MS Word .doc format? I believe HTML is easily editable by a >> suitable HTML editor. >> > Collaboration aside, a PDF (or HTML or Word) document isn't appropriate > for the content. Your documents are ~260 pages, where 245 of those > pages are just one kernel config file. It would be much more helpful on > the wiki, where you can link to the config file so people can download > it directly, and you can use the content of the wiki entry to point out > only the changes you made to the default Ubuntu config file (which I > believe you already do). > > And, to the collaboration point, not everyone may be successful > following your instructions. In this case, it would be nice if those > people can log onto the wiki and update your page to make your > documentation more verbose and explain difficulties one might encounter > and how to overcome them. I'm sure you'd rather do this than have > people email you the same question over and over again when they're > trying to follow your PDF document that you have sole control of. Or, > have to commit to publishing a new version of the document every time > there's a minor revision in any of the related pieces of software. That > would get old quick... > > Doug > >> I am not very good with Wikis and have some difficulty creating a page >> on Wikis. Is it possible for you to help me import my content into >> wiki.xen.org or even www.xen.org? >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> Yours sincerely, >> >> Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-devel mailing list >> Xen-devel@lists.xen.org >> http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel Dear Doug, I will try to see if there is any way I can publish my HTML documentation in Xen Wiki. Thank you very much. Yours sincerely, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)