Serverguide content for non LTS

[Doug Smythies]

On 2016.10.11 00:41 Christian Ehrhardt wrote:

> I wanted to ask for a bit of guidance.
> I wrote the Serverguide part for DPDK in the past for 16.04.
>
> Now in Yakkety a few things have changed and I wonder what the
> right/usual way is to document that. I see at [1] that the guide
> itself is only published each LTS.
>
> But I'd really like to add paragraph like "for users of
> OpenvSwitch-DPDK in Yakkety or later - that also includes users with
> a 16.04 LTS deploying UCA Newton [2] - the way to configure dpdk
> for open vSwitch has changed. In those caseses due to [... actual
> content on what changed and how to do it now]"
>
> Is such a thing reasonable and acceptable into the serverguide?

What you propose seems O.K. to me.
If a subject matter expert is willing to contribute to the Ubuntu 
serverguide, then we will be as flexible as is reasonable to make it
happen.
Submit a Merge Proposal.
There is also a pending very small, but significant, change to Samba,
so we'll look into doing a point release soon.
  
> If not what way would you recommend?
>
> [1]: https://help.ubuntu.com/
> [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpenStack/CloudArchive
>
> -- 
> Christian Ehrhardt
> Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> Canonical Ltd