Ubuntu Server Guide - weak areas and missing pieces

Peter Matulis peter.matulis at canonical.com
Fri Nov 18 15:49:11 UTC 2011


On 11-11-18 10:38 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On 11/18/2011 10:19 AM, Peter Matulis wrote:
>> Secondly, and I vaguely remember a discussion about this on a mailing
>> list, I'm not sure we should be including Eucalyptus docs in the Guide
>> anymore as Openstack is quickly becoming the dominant force for the
>> cloud on Ubuntu.  People can obviously continue to use the older release
>> Server Guides.  Comments?
> 
> The thing that I think is important is to document the upgrade path for
> 10.04 -> 12.04 UEC users from an Ubuntu specific UEC configuration to an
> upstream (consult the upstream docs) Eucalyptus configuration.  That may
> be as simple as explaining UEC is dead so just know when you upgrade
> it'll work but it's no longer called UEC or something more complex.

I don't feel the Guide is the place to document upgrade paths & issues.
 Isn't that something that is traditionally reserved for Release Notes?
 Also, is it natural for us to expect people to read the new Guide
before upgrading?  Just my thoughts.

-- 
Peter Matulis




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