Ubuntu Server Guide - weak areas and missing pieces

[Scott Kitterman]

On 11/18/2011 10:49 AM, Peter Matulis wrote:
> 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.

I think this is a bit of a special case since the product in question
went away in the mean time.  If they do look ahead in the server guide
then having it just vanish as a topic doesn't seem right.

There should be something in the release notes too.

Scott K