Re: [Publicity] Blog Czar update, week of February 10

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/14/2014 04:09 PM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On ven, 2014-02-14 at 15:11 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On 02/14/2014 02:32 PM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > > Anyway, again, I totally agree with what you say. Just to clarify, if
> > > George manage to get out the post on PoD (next week, at this point, I
> > > guess?), that's definitely not a 4.4 new feature, so it should be fine.
> > Well I've got this much done:
> >
> > http://blog.xen.org/?p=8848&preview=true
> Oh, great!
>
> And now I've had a look at it.
>
> > It's basically just PoD from a user perspective, without the technical
> > description.
> Yes, and it's a really nice writeup of that.
>
> > I was dithering a bit between trying to draw some diagrams
> > to make the user description more understandable, and going through and
> > trying to describe more of the technical details.
> >
> > Let me know what you think.
> I'm not sure either. I'd say that the post as it is, even better with
> a/some diagram, is already a really nice one. The only thing that
> puzzles me in this case, is that it, yes, describes what PoD is and how
> it functions, but, since the user can't really do nothing about or with
> PoD (or can he?), it'd all be for the sake of knowing it, which may be a
> bit weak of a motivation. Of course, if there were the technical and
> implementation details, that would be "fixed", but I don't know how much
> time and effort it's required be to add those.
>
> TBH, I really would like to have a more technical and implementation
> focused post about this, as I think it's something important that not
> many dominate, and because it's a while we haven't had a 'Xen internals'
> post. Of course, we can make this a process with two phases, the first
> one of which is what you have, the second is the more technical
> description.
>
> On that ground, and if you're up to writing "episode II" (in a few
> weeks, of course, e.g., when it will be your turn to blog again!), I'd
> say, stick there a few hyperlinks, a cool (and copyleft) photo of some
> balloons, a diagram --if possible-- and go for it!
>
> Does that make sense?
As it happens, I'm about halfway through a "technical internals" 
description, so I think I'll just finish it up.
 -George


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