New Ubuntu Server Guide Live

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:13 AM Christian Ehrhardt
<christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 4:31 PM Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 2020.04.21 00:03 Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:58 PM Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
> > >> On 2019.11.21 07:08 Doug Smythies wrote:
> > >>> On 2019.11.20 23:00 Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > >>>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:11 AM Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
> > >>>>> On 2019.11.19 09:32 Joshua Powers wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Currently, "virt-* tools" shows on the table of contents column,
> > >> but clicking the link goes to the source code page and not the
> > >> published page.
> > >
> > > Hi Doug,
> > > I didn't change anything, but for me "virt-tools" on [1] lead to [2]
> > > which is the published page.
> > > I saw you already made the change to the page content that you wanted to make,
> > > but did you (or someone else) already fix this link as well or might this be
> > > depending on who (user/browser/...) looks at it?
> > >
> >
> > I attempted to fix the link last night my time, a few hours before your e-mail
> > time stamp.
> >
> > I also had a conflict edit on that same page with Josh earlier yesterday, but
> > do not yet now how to look up revision histories on discourse so don't
> > know what he was doing.
>
> At the top of the post (if it is a wiki type as our guide posts are)
> there is a little counter which shows the number of versions.
> It is a Number followed by a "pen on a paper" icon.
> That opens up the history and you can switch through versions.
>
> For example I see you adding the self-link to "Introduction" as last edit.
> Josh before did change "virt-* tools" to "virt tools" and so on.
>
> > I could not see my attempt to include that page at the time,
> > it still went to the discourse source page instead, but I
> > do see it this morning.
> > I wonder if a new html page needs time to actually create or something,
> > just like the PDF is only daily.
>
> IIRC html usually rendered sub 30 minutes for me, mostly almost instantly.
> And that seems to be true as your [2] has your last changes.
>
> I haven't checked the PDF in the past so I don't know what to estimate.
>
> But I agree that there the whole section of virt-tools is missing.
> PDF directly goes from uvt to lxd skipping virt-tools.
> Maybe that is why Josh updated the link?
>
> There might be something missing on the virt-tools page.
> Other than the majority of pages around it it was created by me (a
> split from other virt* pages).
> I have added the tags to the page and links from the introduction to
> finally confirm it was rendered into HTML.
>
> But I never checked the PDF, maybe there is some other tweak yet
> unknown to me needed to properly render it into PDF as well.
> I'll ask around and let you know if I find anything.

I found Robin (on CC now) who was able to point me to the PDF conversion job.
It would run once per day, but fails since ~1.5 months.

We talked about fixing that as well as adding a "generated at <date>"
into the PDF to spot such issues more easily.

Robin will look after the job and most likely reply here once things are fixed.

> > > [1]: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs
> > > [2]: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/virtualization-virt-tools
> >
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> >
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>
> --
> Christian Ehrhardt
> Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> Canonical Ltd



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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd