Regarding Mirage, we''re prepping a release this week, which will
finally stabilise the build instructions. After that''s out, we can
participate more easily in document days.
More docs on the internals of XAPI, particularly around disaggregation, would
seem to be
most useful. Perhaps having a theme for each doc day to encourage subsystem
maintainers
to show up would be useful?
-anil
On 5 Aug 2013, at 12:12, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Monday a week ago, we had a Xen Document Day. Due to the summer holidays,
OSCON and a couple of people who normally contribute being ill, none of the
regular contributors to document days were not around. As a consequence we had
no contributions. This was followed by a discussion last week, I had with
regular contributors to see what was going on. In a nutshell the key points that
were made are:
>
> 1) For Hypervisor Docs, there are no more "low hanging fruit"
left over. Even the regular contributors to document days, have difficulties
figureing out which documents actually need to be improved
> 2) This makes it increasingly difficulkt for newbies to participate in
document days
> 3) We have become better in creating documents for new features and for new
releases
> 4) In recent document days, discussions on the IRC channel were more about
making documents more accessible and easier to find, compared to
>
> To counter balance this, we do have areas which have weak wiki
documentation. Notable areas are XAPI and Mirage: for these sub-projects we
never really got much community participation. Another question is whether the
fact that we had to lock down the wiki due to the recurring spam attacks, is
having a negative impact on wiki contributions and document days in particular.
>
> All these points, raise the question whether a) we still need to have
document days, and b) if we do, what we can do to increase participation. I
wanted to start a discussion about this, before I make a proposal to kill
document days, or maybe change them.
>
> Input is desired. If there is no input, that will add to the case for not
having document days any more.
>
> Best Regards
> Lars
>
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