Please help us review snappy docs

[Tim Gardner]

David's changes to the porting page look fine. Just that one reference 
to the PPA will save folks a lot of pain.

rtg

On 04/25/2015 10:30 PM, Alexander Sack wrote:
> Hey Tim,
>
> we had a few final changes on release day to developer.ubuntu.com.
>
> Can you check if there is anything we can do content or visual wise to
> make it even harder to miss for someone reading those pages for first
> time?
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:
>> I am aware of the PPA. My point is that someone reading this web page for
>> the first time _won't_ know that, nor should they have to. I would expect
>> the instructions on this page to work for at least one of our development
>> environments (i.e., Trusty or Vivid).
>>
>>
>> On 04/23/2015 08:28 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> you need the PPA:
>>>
>>>          https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/
>>>
>>> Have a great day,
>>>    Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 23.04.2015 15:48, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 04/22/2015 09:04 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>>
>>>>> David Callé, myself and others have put quite a bit of work into the
>>>>> snappy development docs in the last days. We are still in the process of
>>>>> juggling a few bits around, but less and less now. Thanks a lot for
>>>>> everyone's help!
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have a bit of free time it would be great if you could have a
>>>>> look at the docs and see if we're basically ready for release tomorrow.
>>>>>
>>>>>          https://developer.ubuntu.com/snappy
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No matter if you find typos, stuff that is incomplete, too complicated,
>>>>> too confusing or anything else, please let us know.
>>>>>
>>>>> A good way is to ping us on IRC or filing a bug on the development site:
>>>>>
>>>>>          https://bugs.launchpad.net/developer-ubuntu-com/+filebug
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking forward to our first very snappy Ubuntu Core release! :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Have a great day,
>>>>>     Daniel
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Brad Figg was trying out snappy in an up-to-date Vivid install and found
>>>> that the '--oem beagleblack' command was not supported. I also noticed
>>>> that under Trusty the '-o' option is not supported.
>>>>
>>>> sudo ubuntu-device-flash core 15.04 -o my-snappy.img --size 4 \
>>>>        --channel edge --oem beagleblack \
>>>>        --enable-ssh --device-part=./device.tar.xz
>>>>
>>>> rtg
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
>>
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