Re: [Xen-devel] [REQUEST] Request for Hosting My Xen HowTo/Tutorial/Documentation on www.xen.org and Xen Wiki

["Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" <singapore.mr.teo.en.ming@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/03/2012 00:25, djmagee@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 11:17 AM
> > To: Ian Campbell
> > Cc: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming); David TECHER; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [REQUEST] Request for Hosting My Xen
> > HowTo/Tutorial/Documentation on www.xen.org and Xen Wiki
> >
> > On 20/03/2012 23:04, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 03:45 +0000, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> > > > Dear Xen admins,
> > > >
> > > > I have spent several days writing my Xen
> > HowTo/Tutorial/Documentation
> > > > and also testing the XL domain configuration files to make sure
> they
> > > > work. I have also verified that creating virtual machines with
> > Virtual
> > > > Machine Manager/libvirt works. I have done a lot of testing with my
> > > > Xen documentation.
> > > Thank you for taking the time to write this document, However I
> don't
> > > think PDF or HTML are appropriate methods for maintaining this
> > document
> > > as they are not easily editable by others.
> > >
> > > Please would you consider importing your content into wiki.xen.org
> > > instead where it can be maintained easily by the community going
> > > forward.
> > >
> > > Ian.
> > Dear Ian,
> >
> > How about MS Word .doc format? I believe HTML is easily editable by a
> > suitable HTML editor.
> Collaboration aside, a PDF (or HTML or Word) document isn't appropriate
> for the content.  Your documents are ~260 pages, where 245 of those
> pages are just one kernel config file.  It would be much more helpful on
> the wiki, where you can link to the config file so people can download
> it directly, and you can use the content of the wiki entry to point out
> only the changes you made to the default Ubuntu config file (which I
> believe you already do).
>
> And, to the collaboration point, not everyone may be successful
> following your instructions.  In this case, it would be nice if those
> people can log onto the wiki and update your page to make your
> documentation more verbose and explain difficulties one might encounter
> and how to overcome them.  I'm sure you'd rather do this than have
> people email you the same question over and over again when they're
> trying to follow your PDF document that you have sole control of.  Or,
> have to commit to publishing a new version of the document every time
> there's a minor revision in any of the related pieces of software.  That
> would get old quick...
>
> Doug
>
> > I am not very good with Wikis and have some difficulty creating a page
> > on Wikis. Is it possible for you to help me import my content into
> > wiki.xen.org or even www.xen.org?
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Yours sincerely,
> >
> > Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
> >
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Dear Doug,

I will try to see if there is any way I can publish my HTML 
documentation in Xen Wiki.
Thank you very much.

Yours sincerely,

Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)

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