Great projects have great documentation. Is XCP-ng a great project?
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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 
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@olivierlambert Well, maybe its a tiny bit easier to sell support if the free documentations isnt top notch
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@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.
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@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=) -
- 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.
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@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.
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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).
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Is there out a know issue paper about XCP8?
I just come back from holidays and it sound it's time to upgrade... -
Nothing specific except Windows XP support dropped in Xen.
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@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
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I just put together a Release Plan: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Releaseplan
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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.
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@stormi yes, it was a quick thing.. but I also had no better title
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@stormi Supportplan? Or just Releases?
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Maybe "Releases and support" (with spaces between words... Not everyone is German :P)
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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?
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Yes, as long as they are clearly identified as third party videos, I think they would be a useful addition.
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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
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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?
