Great projects have great documentation. Is XCP-ng a great project?

olivierlambert

Nobody earns money with XOA Free But otherwise, XOA licenses are what's paying XCP-ng dev right now, yes. Plus paid XOAs aren't meant for individuals/home labs, but for companies, and we'd like to companies get a support/turnkey solution that just work out-of-the-box

Patrik48

@olivierlambert Well, maybe its a tiny bit easier to sell support if the free documentations isnt top notch

olivierlambert

@Patrik48 it's not a goal for us to do that. You mainly sell support as in insurance: if you have an issue, you'll have access to the developers of XCP-ng to assist you with a private ticket (and with a fast response time).

This is something you can't have in a reasonable time when you rely only on the community.

Patrik48

@olivierlambert I miss things like the manpages for the server, for the commands that is used to build up the answerfile.
Is there a more complete documentations provided for those going for the payed support package?

The OP was interested in a step by step guide, thats something that one can write after proper documentation is in place.

Just to be clear, Im fully understand why this isnt a job that we can ask you to do
for us.
I just hopes that someone that is able to read the code can do it, Im just a sysadmin=)

olivierlambert

Our wiki is open to edition for everyone
Otherwise, feel free to create a support ticket asking us to write what you need

The main problem is more a priority problem, and obviously, pro support tickets are priority number 1.

stormi

@Patrik48 Just to make things clear: there is no documentation (or project of documentation) that would be restricted to those who subscribed to pro support.

stormi

Recent changes to the documentation:

Updated https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Updates-Howto with a "Precautions" section, and a "Get information about the updates" section.
Added https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Additional-packages about additional packages installed to dom0, be it from XCP-ng repositories or from outside (CentOS, EPEL, and more).

maxcuttins

Is there out a know issue paper about XCP8?
I just come back from holidays and it sound it's time to upgrade...

olivierlambert

Nothing specific except Windows XP support dropped in Xen.

maxcuttins

@maxcuttins said in Great projects have great documentation. Is XCP-ng a great project?:

Is there out a know issue paper about XCP8?
I just come back from holidays and it sound it's time to upgrade...

Windows 7 is already so old that for a minute I just get confused about it was the XP.
Well not... XP is a piece of history at moment so it's ok.

However I have to said that WinXP was a very good OS instead of Vista & Win8 and still it's a pity that is not supported anymore
At moment only Win7 can be claimed as real successor.

borzel

I just put together a Release Plan: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Releaseplan

stormi

Thanks, I've updated it. I'm thinking of a better page title because to me release plan is about future releases, not exactly about support.

borzel

@stormi yes, it was a quick thing.. but I also had no better title

borzel

@stormi Supportplan? Or just Releases?

stormi

Maybe "Releases and support" (with spaces between words... Not everyone is German :P)

borzel

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lawrencesystems

In addition to the write ups in the Wiki, would it be ok to link my YouTube tutorial videos that I have made on many aspects of the project?

stormi

Yes, as long as they are clearly identified as third party videos, I think they would be a useful addition.

stormi

I think the main missing piece in current docs is a quickstart guide, as discussed here https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/2427/what-to-do-after-install

akurzawa

Hi

I can see repetable questions on this forum, indeed xcp lacks of good documentation. But also I don't think github is the best way to make docs. I think Sphinks is better example here: https://wiki.opnsense.org - what do You think about that?