Re: [oi-dev] Xorg vmware_drv resize problem? (OI vmware guest)

2017-11-27 Thread Michael Kruger
On 11/27/2017 10:54 AM, Gordon Ross wrote: I tried after another update yesterday. Same problem. After a little more experimenting, and I noticed that copy/paste between the Windows host and the guest no longer work either. As I understand it, both copy/paste and resize involve an interaction b

Re: [oi-dev] Contribution: How to install Oracle Database 11 R2 on OpenIndiana

2017-05-08 Thread Michael Kruger
Hi Franklin, Rewriting your nicely written article for the Wiki sounds like an awful lot of work and you would lose all that pretty (presumably done with Latex) formatting. It would be far easier for me to add a new tab on the OI-DOCS website for user contributed articles. Here we can simply

Re: [oi-dev] Contribution: How to install Oracle Database 11 R2 on OpenIndiana

2017-04-24 Thread Michael Kruger
On 04/24/2017 01:26 PM, Franklin Ronald wrote: Hi, Follow a how-to step-by-step about Oracle installation on OpenIndiana Hipster. If interest i can put this article in wiki. https://www.dropbox.com/s/zra2qwtziamxsfp/HowToInstallOracleDB.pdf?dl=0 Regards, That's a very nice looking tutorial

Re: [oi-dev] Wikipedia page

2016-12-14 Thread Michael Kruger
On 12/13/2016 04:19 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hi, I updated the graph I made a while ago on EN and FR (+ link to release notes): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana Feel free to update the other languages. Aurélien Nice work Aurelien, Careful though, people could be misled to think

Re: [oi-dev] HEADS UP: /dev images are archived

2016-11-26 Thread Michael Kruger
On 11/26/2016 07:27 PM, Nikola M wrote: On 11/26/16 03:03 PM, Adam Števko wrote: Hello, I moved all /dev and old OpenSolaris isos under archive directory at http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/archive/. This change is going to be propagated to mirrors after they sync. Cheers, Adam -Do you thin

[oi-dev] Hipster Handbook updates

2016-11-25 Thread Michael Kruger
Hello All, Lots of activity to report on the new Hipster Handbook. http://docs.openindiana.org This past week I've updated the docs site to include details for: * Using the new FreeBSD boot loader * Using the new ZFS rpool options provided by the text installer * Added a basic Git usage gu

Re: [oi-dev] USB installation instructions

2016-11-21 Thread Michael Kruger
On 11/21/2016 05:44 AM, Toomas Soome wrote: On 21. nov 2016, at 12:39, Jean-Pierre André wrote: Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hello, the download page points to the following instructions which are outdated: https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Installing+OpenIndiana I have a computer on which a bo

Re: [oi-dev] USB installation instructions

2016-11-14 Thread Michael Kruger
On 11/14/2016 01:16 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hello, the download page points to the following instructions which are outdated: https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Installing+OpenIndiana Maybe we should have reviewed the installation instructions beforehand, this is a bit unfortunate :S What is

Re: [oi-dev] Call for contributors: New OpenIndiana documentation

2016-11-05 Thread Michael Kruger
On 11/05/2016 08:14 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Considering the available manpower we need a lightweight process, I think the presented solution is satisfactory for now. I think this pretty much sums it all up. Quite a bit can be done with this platform, so lets use it. We can begin by proof

Re: [oi-dev] Looking for translators for the updated 'openindiana-welcome'

2016-11-05 Thread Michael Kruger
Thank you very much Franklin. We're up to 8 languages now. This is great. As for ISO code, should I use 'br' with a label of 'Português' ? Michael On 11/04/2016 11:02 PM, Franklin Ronald wrote: Follow Brazilian Portuguese translation: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [oi-dev] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Looking for translators for the updated 'openindiana-welcome'

2016-11-05 Thread Michael Kruger
Thank you for submitting this Ken, This is great, we're up to 8 languages now. Michael On 10/31/2016 05:54 AM, ken mays via oi-dev wrote: Michael, == OpenIndiana Welcome page in Spanish OpenIndiana Logo Bienvenido a OpenIndiana inconformista! OpenIndiana

Re: [oi-dev] Looking for translators for the updated 'openindiana-welcome'

2016-10-29 Thread Michael Kruger
Update: We have the following translations now: French Greek Russian And Francis is currently working on the Portuguese (Brazil) translation. Translation wish list (in no particular order): Slovenian Serbian Italian Chinese Japanese Spanish I've attached the US English version as an attachme

[oi-dev] Looking for translators for the updated 'openindiana-welcome'

2016-10-28 Thread Michael Kruger
Hello All, I've committed the updates to my fork of openindiana-welcome. https://github.com/makruger/openindiana-welcome So, at this time I would like to invite the community to submit translations. Translations reside in the folder data/html. Each translation requires a subfolder (for exam

Re: [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana-Welcome

2016-10-26 Thread Michael Kruger
On 10/26/2016 01:53 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: On 10/26/16 05:15 AM, Michael Kruger wrote: Whoops...sent an old version. Here is the latest version with the fix. I would move links to the first column (so that ZFS was a link, not File System and Volume Manager). OK, good idea. Change&#

Re: [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana-Welcome

2016-10-25 Thread Michael Kruger
Whoops...sent an old version. Here is the latest version with the fix. Michael On 10/23/2016 10:54 PM, Michael Kruger wrote: This is a request for comments for an updated OpenIndiana-Welcome doc... Did a quick update of the doc which ships with OI and is presented the first time Firefox is

Re: [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana-Welcome

2016-10-25 Thread Michael Kruger
On 10/25/2016 02:36 AM, Till Wegmüller wrote: Nice I like it. On the ZFS Feature you only have the link and not the Text as Link. I guess thats a typo? Other than that great work thanks. Yes, that was LibreOffice fighting me. Fixed I also added a link to the release notes page on the Wi

[oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana-Welcome

2016-10-24 Thread Michael Kruger
Suggestions incorporated. See attached file Michael openindiana-welcome.odt Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev

[oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana-Welcome

2016-10-23 Thread Michael Kruger
This is a request for comments for an updated OpenIndiana-Welcome doc... Did a quick update of the doc which ships with OI and is presented the first time Firefox is run. Please review and if you have suggestions for what else should be added to this, or would like to see something changed, p

[oi-dev] vmmouse fails to load

2016-10-21 Thread Michael Kruger
Hello, Hoping someone can help me figure this out. The problem is vmmouse fails to be detected for OI guests when I am running either KVM or VMware-player as the host hypervisor. My goal is to get vmmouse working so the mouse transistions in and out of the virtual machine without needing to

Re: [oi-dev] [CFR] kvmadm need testers

2016-10-15 Thread Michael Kruger
I just took another look at this.9 months later. Here are the missing modules, which I was able to install with CPAN. /usr/perl5/5.22/bin/cpan i /illumos::smf/ /usr/perl5/5.22/bin/cpan install JSON After installing those, I was able to run 'kvmadm create myvm' and it loaded the configurati

Re: [oi-dev] vmware driver for xorg broken? (spaces replace much of what I type)

2016-09-12 Thread Michael Kruger
On 09/12/2016 01:04 PM, Gordon Ross wrote: Don't know if this helps, but vmmouse is working fine for me, as built-in for OpenIndiana/hipster. Wish I could say the same...but it's not being detected correctly for me. VMware® Workstation 12 Player 12.1.1 build-3770994 When I run /usr/lib/xorg/v

Re: [oi-dev] vmware driver for xorg broken? (spaces replace much of what I type)

2016-09-12 Thread Michael Kruger
On 09/08/2016 12:57 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: To see what drivers Xorg loaded, either check Xorg.0.log or run pldd on the Xorg process. Hi Alan, Xorg.0.log does show the vmware graphics drivers being loaded so I am all set there. However, it is not loading the vmmouse driver, but rather

Re: [oi-dev] vmware driver for xorg broken? (spaces replace much of what I type)

2016-09-08 Thread Michael Kruger
On 09/08/2016 11:38 AM, Gordon Ross wrote: [ Was: Whoa! emacs broken? ... ] Out of curiosity, I tried temporarily removing the vmware xorg driver. That eliminates the "damage redraw" bug I described previously. Unfortunately, that leaves the vmware guest restricted to modes that can't cover the

Re: [oi-dev] Fwd: Nobody for whom OI/Hipster Mate on i915/KMS is working fine wants to report?

2016-09-05 Thread Michael Kruger
On 09/05/2016 09:46 AM, Мартин Бохниг via oi-dev wrote: Пересылаемое сообщение От кого: Мартин Бохниг Кому: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Дата: Понедельник, 5 сентября 2016, 13:46 UTC Тема: Nobody for whom OI/Hipster Mate on i915/KMS is working fine wants to report?

Re: [oi-dev] Error on /usr/bin/pkg update -v

2016-08-25 Thread Michael Kruger
On 08/25/16 02:39 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: # beadm create my-backup-be # pkg change-facet facet.version-lock.package/pkg=false # pkg set-publisher --non-sticky -g http://buildzone.oi-build.r61.net:1000/ userland # pkg set-publisher --non-sticky openindiana.org # pkg install pkg://userland/

Re: [oi-dev] Error on /usr/bin/pkg update -v

2016-08-25 Thread Michael Kruger
On 08/25/16 11:41 PM, Franklin wrote: I have same issue. I run the command: pkg change-facet facet.version-lock.package/pkg=false Works. Thanks Franklin, Looks like that worked and mediator is set to openssh. pkg mediator | grep openssh ssh vendorvendor openssh

Re: [oi-dev] Error on /usr/bin/pkg update -v

2016-08-25 Thread Michael Kruger
On 08/25/16 02:39 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: # pkg change-facet facet.version-lock.package/pkg=true=false Hi Alp, I ran into this issue myself. This command as written throws the error: pkg: change-facet: facets must to be of the form 'facet=[True|False|None]' I am guessing the com

Re: [oi-dev] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-18 Thread Michael Kruger
On 08/17/16 04:22 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: On 08/17/16 12:07 AM, Michael Kruger wrote: On 08/16/16 03:50 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: Now checked on a real desktop (Asus P6T/X58/Core i7 980X/Quadro FX 1800), and all is working correctly... no, wait, sound volume cannot be changed after

Re: [oi-dev] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-17 Thread Michael Kruger
On 08/17/16 09:51 PM, Michael Kruger wrote: On 08/16/16 11:10 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hello, people. I wanted to announce availability of Mate some time ago, but there were some issues, especially when I tried to build Mate Live CD. Hi Alp, I ran into some issues writing the

Re: [oi-dev] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-17 Thread Michael Kruger
On 08/16/16 11:10 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hello, people. I wanted to announce availability of Mate some time ago, but there were some issues, especially when I tried to build Mate Live CD. Hi Alp, I ran into some issues writing the OI_GUI_experimental.usb when using the old 'usbcopy' s

Re: [oi-dev] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

2016-08-16 Thread Michael Kruger
On 08/16/16 03:50 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: Now checked on a real desktop (Asus P6T/X58/Core i7 980X/Quadro FX 1800), and all is working correctly... no, wait, sound volume cannot be changed after fiddling with the sound control settings, no way to set volume with any controls anymore, no wa

Re: [oi-dev] HEADS UP: HTTPS available on pkg.openindiana.org

2016-08-09 Thread Michael Kruger
On 08/09/2016 12:49 PM, Adam Števko wrote: Hello, I gave our infrastructure some love and have following announcements: - HTTPS availability on pkg.openindiana.org There were some calls to bring HTTPS to the package repository and we have it now. If you want to use

Re: [oi-dev] OpenIndiana Code of Conduct

2016-07-26 Thread Michael Kruger
On 07/26/2016 10:00 AM, WebDawg wrote: Is there anyway to tag this work so I know who made it. One person announced it but I do not know who is on board, and who helped create it? Hi Webdawg, The document was a collective effort between Alp, Aurelien, Adam, and myself. We all provided ideas

Re: [oi-dev] OpenIndiana Code of Conduct

2016-07-26 Thread Michael Kruger
On 07/26/2016 09:58 AM, WebDawg wrote: For instance in this response: "No unfinished half-things should be put on site like this." Is this a decision that needs decided still? Is there a consensus in any direction that http://www.openindiana.org/community/ is for drafts or not for drafts?

Re: [oi-dev] OpenIndiana Code of Conduct

2016-07-26 Thread Michael Kruger
On 07/26/2016 09:44 AM, WebDawg wrote: Can someone tell me which wiki/web page we are supposed to be looking at? http://www.openindiana.org/community/code-of-conduct/ http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Code+of+Conduct+proposals http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=31391953

Re: [oi-dev] OpenIndiana Code of Conduct

2016-07-20 Thread Michael Kruger
On 07/20/2016 06:19 AM, Johan S via oi-dev wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 01:44:00 +0200 Nikola M wrote: On 07/19/16 02:26 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: As part of a larger effort at providing a more formal governance structure for the OpenIndiana project, I’d like to announce on the

Re: [oi-dev] OpenIndiana Code of Conduct

2016-07-20 Thread Michael Kruger
On 07/20/2016 06:13 PM, Adam Števko wrote: What is the desired outcome of a code of conduct? Should it be a set of rules? Or a set of expectations from each other? Is it assumed to be the same for all codes of conducts? If so should we link to that definition? or do we need to define that?

Re: [oi-dev] how to reg wiki.openindiana.org ?

2016-06-08 Thread Michael Kruger
On 06/08/2016 03:13 AM, Nikola M wrote: Can you say few things about yourself as an introduction? You can start writing on topics you want, send me to my e-mail for starters and for quality control. Or to the mailing list itself and we'll see if opening Wiki account is needed. If you have so

Re: [oi-dev] Public Documentation License (terms)

2016-05-17 Thread Michael Kruger
On 05/17/2016 09:33 PM, Michael Kruger wrote: So, if the content found on openindiana.org or wiki.openindiana.org were PDL licensed, then it would also follow that any document created from such content would then need to include all the contributor names in it's PDL notice. And if a

[oi-dev] Public Documentation License (terms)

2016-05-17 Thread Michael Kruger
Hello All, Given the topic of licensing has come up several times in recent discussions, I thought this might be a good time to talk a little more about the PDL license and the terms it imposes on authored works subject to this license. Below I have cobbled together a few things I found on t

Re: [oi-dev] OpenIndiana Docs - updated

2016-05-16 Thread Michael Kruger
On 05/16/2016 02:43 AM, Nikola M wrote: Posting any "guides" and "roles" inside Openindiana without consultation of others and wider audience is simply arrogant and destructive to Openindiana and that represents TROLLING of Openindiana. Anyone wanting to make OI a prison for "roles" and "polic

Re: [oi-dev] OpenIndiana Docs - updated

2016-05-16 Thread Michael Kruger
On 05/16/2016 04:33 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: In your defense, perhaps it makes sense to mark Michael's pages visibly as a draft/experiment/poc/etc. of a possible future of OI docs and not the official resource at this moment, so readers of the preview pages are not confused. This is a good idea

Re: [oi-dev] OpenIndiana Docs - updated

2016-05-16 Thread Michael Kruger
On 05/16/2016 08:41 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Some notes: http://makruger.github.io/website/pages/docs/faq.html: 1) Sun/Oracle’s proprietary OS/NET consolidation has been replaced with illumos-gate. => Sun OS/NET consolidation, closed by Oracle, has been replaced... I mean, OS/NET was open..

[oi-dev] OpenIndiana Docs - updated

2016-05-15 Thread Michael Kruger
Hello All, Reporting my progress so nobody gets the idea this little technology demonstration project has been abandoned. Far from it, there has been continued development. See it all here: http://makruger.github.io/website/ This weekend the contribution page was reworked with a slightly mo

Re: [oi-dev] MATE 1.14 Desktop for OpenIndiana

2016-05-08 Thread Michael Kruger
On 05/08/2016 07:18 PM, Nikola M wrote: I hope we don't need to put this to the vote, since it is obvious that /legacy exists and is in use and that "Vintage" cna't be used for labeling, because it hurts proposed /dev repository renewal project. Nikolam, You have performed the community a rea

Re: [oi-dev] OpenIndiana Docs (proof of concept) - What is it all about?

2016-05-07 Thread Michael Kruger
On 05/07/2016 05:20 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: I just want to summarize discussion on IRC... We are not sure if all of the documentation, which was earlier present on http://dlc.openindiana.org/docs/ is redistributable, so we preserved only one archive (docs-20090715.tar.gz), in which we are

Re: [oi-dev] demonstration docs website

2016-05-07 Thread Michael Kruger
On 05/07/2016 04:21 AM, Nikola M wrote: Michael Kruger maliciously requested yesterday that all Opensolaris docs be removed from http://dlc.openindiana.org/docs/ , not telling he requested to host expanded .zip with Opensolaris docs as reference, but I requested for another Dir with Docs be

Re: [oi-dev] demonstration docs website

2016-05-04 Thread Michael Kruger
On 05/04/2016 06:52 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > Hi, Michael. > > Thank you for your work. > To move further I think we should consider several questions... > > 1) Someone should look through the docs... So , reviewers are welcome. > Have you changed "OpenSolaris Redistributable Books" in any w

[oi-dev] OpenIndiana Docs (proof of concept) - What is it all about?

2016-05-03 Thread Michael Kruger
Now that the dust has settled a little bit after my initial presentation, perhaps I should elaborate a bit about my motivations and intentions in creating this little proof of concept. In the responses and discussions that followed, some feathers were ruffled, and a number of points where rais

Re: [oi-dev] demonstration docs website

2016-05-01 Thread Michael Kruger
On 05/01/2016 04:56 AM, Nikola M wrote: I would like you have been doing this not alone, but within Openindiana community and cooperation with others, with announcing it here. Also using Openindiana brand name outside openindiana.org for site names (like .ninja etc) is not good, since it is whe

[oi-dev] demonstration docs website

2016-04-30 Thread Michael Kruger
Hello all, Here is a little something I have been working to help showcase documentation for the OpenIndiana project. Currently hosted are: OpenIndiana FAQ (Complete, but still growing and improving) OpenIndiana Handbook (little more than a template at this point) OpenSolaris Books (41 titles

[oi-dev] Updated FAQ has been published

2016-04-11 Thread Michael Kruger
Hello all, The FAQ that I have been working on has now been published. Being a living document, it will improve and grow along with the project. You can find the updated FAQ here: http://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/ Also, our Wordpress instance now has an interpreter for the Ascii

Re: [oi-dev] [CFR] kvmadm need testers

2016-04-11 Thread Michael Kruger
Resending On 04/07/2016 10:23 PM, Michael Kruger wrote: On 03/22/2016 06:11 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Alexander Pyhalov писал 23.03.2016 01:07: Hello. Currently I don't have server installations suitable for testing KVM, so I need testers. And binary package is here

Re: [oi-dev] Updated FAQ has been published

2016-04-11 Thread Michael Kruger
Resending due to recent bounce back issue. On 04/09/2016 11:59 PM, Michael Kruger wrote: Hello all, The FAQ that I have been working on has now been published. Being a living document, it will improve and grow along with the project. You can find the updated FAQ here: http

Re: [oi-dev] [CFR] kvmadm need testers

2016-04-11 Thread Michael Kruger
Resending. On 04/07/2016 09:52 PM, Michael Kruger wrote: On 03/22/2016 06:11 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Alexander Pyhalov писал 23.03.2016 01:07: Hello. Currently I don't have server installations suitable for testing KVM, so I need testers. And binary package is here

[oi-dev] Contributing to the development of OpenIndiana

2016-03-06 Thread Michael Kruger
Hello All, In the latest iteration of the OpenIndiana FAQ: https://github.com/makruger/openindiana-docs/blob/master/faq.asciidoc It became apparent the list of contribution task entry points was a bit outdated. For example, it mentions the distribution constructor, which ALP kindly pointed ou

Re: [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ (3rd draft)

2016-02-14 Thread Michael Kruger
On 02/10/2016 06:14 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hi. I have several notices. "Some notable features of OpenSolaris were the introduction of the all familiar GNOME desktop, GNU userland tools, and a new network based package manager (IPS)" It seems comma before "and" is not necessary, but I'm not

Re: [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ (3rd draft)

2016-02-10 Thread Michael Kruger
On 02/10/2016 06:14 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hi. I have several notices. "Some notable features of OpenSolaris were the introduction of the all familiar GNOME desktop, GNU userland tools, and a new network based package manager (IPS)" It seems comma before "and" is not necessary, but I'm n

Re: [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ (3rd draft)

2016-02-10 Thread Michael Kruger
Last night I went back and re-read the comments folks provided, and have further updated the FAQ to include these. Sections I worked on were the package manager, SPARC support, and getting involved. A few more minor edits elsewhere as well. Unless anyone finds glaring regressions, this is lik

[oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ (2nd draft)

2016-02-07 Thread Michael Kruger
Hi All, Based on feedback, I've reworked the FAQ a bit more. Several sections have been reworded and re-ordered. http://hub.openindiana.ninja/?q=content/faq Feel free to comment Michael ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openi

Re: [oi-dev] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-31 Thread Michael Kruger
On 01/31/2016 03:31 PM, Johan S wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:33:24 +0100 Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hello, I don t find the comparison useful ... i mean how useful is it ...? Linux was written from scratch ... by Hp Ibm SGI and lot of companies . This is absolutely irrelevant and could only

Re: [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-31 Thread Michael Kruger
On 01/31/2016 01:26 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hi. Again I don't like "Linux in contrast, was created from scratch to provide an open source alternative to proprietary Minix". This sounds strange now, when Minix is open sourced. Perhaps, change it to something like "to Minix, which license lim

Re: [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-30 Thread Michael Kruger
On 01/30/2016 02:50 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: BTW, can we use echelog to log oi-documentation channel? It also should be mentioned on the wiki. Hi Alexander, I've modified everything you've suggested, and improved a few other areas as well. Please have another look: http://hub.openindian

[oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-30 Thread Michael Kruger
rther refined and improved. Thanks! Michael Kruger ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev

Re: [oi-dev] FAQ update

2016-01-07 Thread Michael Kruger
On 01/07/2016 04:11 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hi, If someone wants to give it a shot, this page needs love: http://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/ because it is fairly outdated... Regards, Aurelien Hi Aurelien, If nobody else (more experienced with OI/Illumos) is interested, I wo

Re: [oi-dev] OI User documentation

2016-01-07 Thread Michael Kruger
On 01/07/2016 05:04 AM, Damian Wojsław wrote: On the topic of re-using old OpenSolaris docs, I wouldn't mind, for one, to build on ZFS Administrator Guide. While differences are many, most of text would still be useful. Writing such a guide from start is a tedious task. I know, having started

Re: [oi-dev] OI User documentation

2015-12-31 Thread Michael Kruger
On 12/26/2015 12:46 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 12/26/15 01:36 AM, Nikola M wrote: I have just found this as the documentation reference. https://www.illumos.org/projects/documentation/wiki/Existing_OpenSolaris_documentation Which seems to need updates to point to http://illumos.org/books/

Re: [oi-dev] OI User documentation

2015-12-25 Thread Michael Kruger
On 12/25/2015 03:40 AM, Nikola M wrote: Documentation needs decisions weither it will replace "Opensolaris" wording with illumos or with Openindiana or both where appropriate. Also whether docs need to be separated in illumos ones that could be for all illumos distributions OS'es to share and

Re: [oi-dev] OI User documentation

2015-12-25 Thread Michael Kruger
On 12/25/2015 03:40 AM, Nikola M wrote: -There was also docs-discuss mailing list that could be continued and made as new one on OI mailing lists for documentation use. Nice idea, but I doubt we're quite ready for something like that. Perhaps once DOC talk begin to detract from DEV talk, the

Re: [oi-dev] OI User documentation

2015-12-25 Thread Michael Kruger
On 12/25/2015 03:58 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: I agree getting docs into some kind of version control would be very helpful. I've previously worked with subversion, but would be more inclined to learn how to use GIT. Look here for an introduction: http://rypress.com/tutorials/git/index Reg

Re: [oi-dev] OI User documentation

2015-12-25 Thread Michael Kruger
On 12/25/2015 02:02 PM, Nikola M wrote: I think both of them have a place there, it is not the question weither one or another. it is important to write on the wiki and that is where people woud look first anyway. So it could be two tracks and being valuable for both big documentation, updated

Re: [oi-dev] OI User documentation

2015-12-25 Thread Michael Kruger
On 12/25/2015 01:52 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: I'd say. if you can engage more people in writing or supporting docs (perhaps, communicating with OmniOS and Joyeny folks), it worths resurrect old Sun docs from OpenSolaris days. But if you are the only one who works on documentation, updating OI

Re: [oi-dev] OI User documentation

2015-12-25 Thread Michael Kruger
On 12/25/2015 11:10 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hello Michael, welcome ! Thanks for the kind offer, this is great ! As Nikola pointed in his email setting up a repository and contribution guidelines for the existing documentation is an important task. I am not sure it is the most efficient way to

Re: [oi-dev] OI User documentation

2015-12-25 Thread Michael Kruger
Hi, could you also bring up this question on develo...@lists.illumos.org ML? I think it concerns not only OI, OmniTI and Joyent guys could also be interested in this. Hi Alexander, I agree this would be a good idea. Michael ___ oi-dev mailing list o

Re: [oi-dev] OI User documentation

2015-12-25 Thread Michael Kruger
On 12/25/2015 03:40 AM, Nikola M wrote: On 12/24/15 09:40 PM, Michael Kruger wrote: On 12/22/2015 05:16 PM, Michael Kruger wrote: Hello all, My name is Michael Kruger and I would like to help contribute to the OI project by doing whatever I can towards improving the state of OI's end

Re: [oi-dev] OI User documentation

2015-12-24 Thread Michael Kruger
On 12/22/2015 05:16 PM, Michael Kruger wrote: Hello all, My name is Michael Kruger and I would like to help contribute to the OI project by doing whatever I can towards improving the state of OI's end user documentation. I'm also willing to help with QA testing. While I don&