Ubuntu Server Guide - weak areas and missing pieces

[Scott Kitterman]

On 11/18/2011 11:13 AM, Hugo Serrano wrote:
> On 18-11-2011 15:59, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> On 11/18/2011 10:49 AM, Peter Matulis wrote:
>>> On 11-11-18 10:38 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>>>> On 11/18/2011 10:19 AM, Peter Matulis wrote:
>>>>> Secondly, and I vaguely remember a discussion about this on a mailing
>>>>> list, I'm not sure we should be including Eucalyptus docs in the Guide
>>>>> anymore as Openstack is quickly becoming the dominant force for the
>>>>> cloud on Ubuntu.  People can obviously continue to use the older
>>>>> release
>>>>> Server Guides.  Comments?
>>>> The thing that I think is important is to document the upgrade path for
>>>> 10.04 ->  12.04 UEC users from an Ubuntu specific UEC configuration
>>>> to an
>>>> upstream (consult the upstream docs) Eucalyptus configuration.  That
>>>> may
>>>> be as simple as explaining UEC is dead so just know when you upgrade
>>>> it'll work but it's no longer called UEC or something more complex.
>>> I don't feel the Guide is the place to document upgrade paths&  issues.
>>>   Isn't that something that is traditionally reserved for Release Notes?
>>>   Also, is it natural for us to expect people to read the new Guide
>>> before upgrading?  Just my thoughts.
>> I think this is a bit of a special case since the product in question
>> went away in the mean time.  If they do look ahead in the server guide
>> then having it just vanish as a topic doesn't seem right.
>>
>> There should be something in the release notes too.
>>
>> Scott K
>>
> I agree with Peter, but also agree with Scott. Probably a note with all
> the software that it won't be supported any more.
> 
> I suggest some guide to nginx. It seems that it's starting to showing up!
> 
> Maybe it's not the right place, because it's more a service of the
> Desktop Version, but the LTSP should be somewhere around too.

Edubuntu ships and uses LTSP by default, so that work could be
coordinated with them.  I don't know if they have any docs already.

Scott K