Xen.org Community: To further community interaction beyond our existing mailing lists, I have launched a new Xen.org Blog site at http://67.207.140.65/ (soon to be http://blog.xen.org <http://blog.xen.org/> ). The blog site is open to any community member wishing to discuss any Xen related concept or issue. Please keep all blog posts about the Xen hypervisor and related technology and remember this is not a marketing or sales tool to promote your Xen solution. I look forward to reading the variety of topics posted on Xen. If you wish to be an author on this site, please contact me at stephen.spector@citrix.com for account setup. If you wish to add comments, you can easily register on the site at http://67.207.140.65/wp-login.php?action=register. There is no registration required to read the content on the service or use the RSS feeds. Finally, special thanks to Slicehost (www.slicehost.com <http://www.slicehost.com/> ) for hosting the WordPress Blog Service on an open source Xen hypervisor. If you are looking for a quality hosting provider using the Xen hypervisor, I strongly recommend Slicehost. Stephen Spector Sr. Program Manager, Xen.org Citrix Systems, Inc. 954.267.2853 stephen.spector@citrix.com _______________________________________________ Xen-community mailing list Xen-community@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-community
> Xen.org Community: > > To further community interaction beyond our existing mailing lists, Ihave> launched a new Xen.org Blog site at http://67.207.140.65/ (soon to be > http://blog.xen.org <http://blog.xen.org/> ). The blog site is open toany> community member wishing to discuss any Xen related concept or issue. > Please keep all blog posts about the Xen hypervisor and relatedtechnology> and remember this is not a marketing or sales tool to promote your Xen > solution. I look forward to reading the variety of topics posted onXen. My concern with this is that the mailing lists are currently the place do hold discussions on Xen related stuff... does this mean developers need to monitor additional discussion areas too? Email has many advantages over web sites for holding discussions. Maybe I''m the only one with this opinion... if so I''ll speak no further :) Can you please elaborate on the need you see the blog site filling, and when it would be more appropriate to discuss something on a blog vs on the mailing list? James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> My concern with this is that the mailing lists are currently the place > do hold discussions on Xen related stuff... does this mean developers > need to monitor additional discussion areas too? Email has many > advantages over web sites for holding discussions. > > Maybe I''m the only one with this opinion... if so I''ll speak no further > > :) > > Can you please elaborate on the need you see the blog site filling, and > when it would be more appropriate to discuss something on a blog vs on > the mailing list?It''s my feeling that the blog could be useful to increase visibility of what developers are doing, so that interested parties could see at-a-glance what sort of stuff is going on in "Xen Land". I think that for developer discussions or user support the mailing lists are the most appropriate medium. The blog could be good for eg. saying "hey, I''m working on this cool thing" or "new release of blah" in high signal-to-noise way for interested parties to read over the web or via RSS. I''m thinking I may use my blog to occasionally write little bits of progress report on cool things I''m working on or ideas I''ve had. If anything takes form sufficiently in concept or implementation to be worth discussing widely then I''d post on the mailing list. Cheers, Mark -- Push Me Pull You - Distributed SCM tool (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~maw48/pmpu/) _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
James: Thanks for your comments on the Xen.org blog. I believe the mailing lists do a great job of supporting the community for discussions of problems they are having developing or using the Xen Hypervisor. The mailing lists are the perfect place for these discussions and I recently launched a new search tool (http://xen.markmail.org) that let the community search into the large mailing list archives. I think the Blog is a great way for the Xen community to discuss the project on a larger scale which would not be appropriate for the mailing lists. Examples of blog postings would be: New Features with descriptions, Status on features under development, Xen Community activities, and other topics that would be beyond the way that mailing lists are used. Mark''s feedback is very good to your question as well and I want to give community members such as Mark an opportunity to reach out to a wider audience via the blog. Thanks. ...spector -----Original Message----- From: James Harper [mailto:james.harper@bendigoit.com.au] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:24 PM To: Stephen Spector; xen-community@lists.xensource.com; xen-users@lists.xensource.com; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Xen.org Blog Available> Xen.org Community: > > To further community interaction beyond our existing mailing lists, Ihave> launched a new Xen.org Blog site at http://67.207.140.65/ (soon to be > http://blog.xen.org <http://blog.xen.org/> ). The blog site is open toany> community member wishing to discuss any Xen related concept or issue. > Please keep all blog posts about the Xen hypervisor and relatedtechnology> and remember this is not a marketing or sales tool to promote your Xen > solution. I look forward to reading the variety of topics posted onXen. My concern with this is that the mailing lists are currently the place do hold discussions on Xen related stuff... does this mean developers need to monitor additional discussion areas too? Email has many advantages over web sites for holding discussions. Maybe I''m the only one with this opinion... if so I''ll speak no further :) Can you please elaborate on the need you see the blog site filling, and when it would be more appropriate to discuss something on a blog vs on the mailing list? James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 09:36:25 am Stephen Spector wrote:> Examples of blog postings would be: New Features with > descriptions, Status on features under development, Xen Community > activities, and other topics that would be beyond the way that mailing > lists are used.Maybe one of the blogs could be addendums to the (aging) xen docs w/respect to new features, such as xvd* & [hx]vc*. Maybe Redhat could discuss what advantages they saw in switching to running a PV domain with ''qemu-dm -M xenpv ...'' in fc8, and why tap:aio: works for PV and not for HVM (esp. since it''s qemu now in both cases). Some of this stuff has been covered already, but a lot of the questions that come up in this list are about things that change and aren''t well documented, so you need an insider like Mark to help decipher them. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users