[lxc-users] would there be value in starting an LXD community online collection of how-to related information

Thu Jan 12 17:05:02 UTC 2017

Thanks Adam & Stephane ...

I guess I'd like to hear from other LXD users out there that would be
interested in more general "how-to" guides for LXD being available.

Myself, I'm not a sw developer and not overly familiar with Github's
utilization.  I suspect there may be alot of LXD users that are more
*"integrators"* of technologies into LXD and perhaps not dev's or Github
users but I could certainly be wrong.

In my mind I'd like to see something very easy to edit/submit/change/search *by
the general LXD community of users*... much like a wiki is.

Maybe github is all those things and its my lack of familiarity & daily use
of it that makes me feel otherwise but I think the fact that on the LXD
Github there are currently only 85 contributors *(nearly all are
coder/devs) makes me think that many people may just not know "how" to add
LXD related "user" generated content like this via gitub*?

Anyway I'd like to see what others think.

I have found:  https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze which is a highly
rated, *widely used, open source, and free hosting *wiki site that supports
a visual editor, subscribing & auto-notification to topics/subjects,
etc.    But that is just  one possibility for consideration for *a
user-friendly, easy-to-use* alternative?

The end goal of coarse should be encouraging & enabling a greater community
contribution of "how-to" type info related to LXD usage and to have it
collected in one place versus spread  all over the web on personal sites,
blogs etc.

Brian

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Adam Stokes <adam.stokes at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> I spoke with Stephane and it is preferred to go GitHub and fork their
> website repo https://github.com/lxc/linuxcontainers.org. This is the best
> place for all LXD related documentation since it is not entirely Ubuntu
> specific. The other benefit is that any documentation that gets added to
> the project repo will be available for others to translate.
>
> They are also open to any suggestions you may have for structuring any of
> the documentation to make it easier for users to benefit.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:43 PM Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 02:51:34PM -0500, brian mullan wrote:
>> > I know there is the LXD github info that the developers provide and
>> there
>> > are other awesome sources of info like Stephane Graber, Serge Hallyn,
>> > Tycho's etc websites on LXD.
>> >
>> > But I've also seen a tremendous amount of LXD related "how-to's"
>> scattered
>> > all over the web.and I've tried to collect what I personally found on
>> the
>> > LXD subreddit:  https://www.reddit.com/r/LXD/
>> >
>> > I see great questions & answers on the lxc-users mailer all the time but
>> > unless I cut & paste ones that are particularly insightful in order to
>> save
>> > them for later I find it sometimes hard to "re-find" them later by
>> going to
>> > the lxc-users mailer archive (
>> > https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-users/) as I haven't
>> found
>> > a convenient way to "search" the entire archive for specific info other
>> > than expanding each month-by-month entry by subject although I do
>> > understand that there appears to be a way to make pipermail archives
>> > searchable -
>> > https://wiki.list.org/DOC/How%20do%20I%20make%20the%
>> 20archives%20searchable
>> >
>> > All too often I read comments by people along the lines of * "Why is
>> there
>> > no general LXD Users Guide"*.
>> >
>> > Those types of comments are are often accompanied by questions related
>> to
>> > specific areas like how to map devices or other "how-to" configure type
>> > questions.
>> >
>> > Myself, I'd started collecting tidbits into a .ODT file to reference
>> when I
>> > need to and so far I have about 19 pages of info on various topics.    I
>> > have to believe I'm not the only one that's got their own list of LXD
>> > how-to's saved away on their pc!
>> >
>> > All of the info I've gathered was gleaned off of various sites on the
>> web
>> > and unfortunately since I was, at the time only collecting the info for
>> > myself, I didn't keep a Link or author reference to where some of it
>> came
>> > from (sorry about that).  Some of my .ODT probably came from things I'd
>> > read by the above individuals.
>> >
>> > Attached is my .ODT.   The format may not be the greatest but again, it
>> has
>> > been for my own reference so far.
>> >
>> > I was thinking if something like this might be of interested to more
>> people
>> > then we could host the file on github somewhere and the LXD user
>> community
>> > could add/correct/delete info as time went on "how to" do things with
>> LXD?
>> >
>> > So thought I'd just throw this out there.
>> >
>> > Brian
>>
>> We do track a whole bunch of them on this page:
>>
>> https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/articles/
>>
>> Our website is available on github at:
>>
>> https://github.com/lxc/linuxcontainers.org
>>
>> So it's pretty easy to send in updates for that page.
>>
>>
>>
>> We'd certainly also welcome contributions to the website itself,
>> improving the getting started guide and possibly adding a few more pages
>> of documentation directly on the site.
>>
>> --
>> Stéphane Graber
>> Ubuntu developer
>> http://www.ubuntu.com
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