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

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    • olivierlambertO Offline
      olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
      last edited by 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.

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        Patrik48 @olivierlambert
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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=)

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        • olivierlambertO Offline
          olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
          last edited by

          1. Our wiki is open to edition for everyone
          2. Otherwise, feel free to create a support ticket asking us to write what you need πŸ™‚

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

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          • stormiS Offline
            stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @Patrik48
            last edited by

            @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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            • stormiS Offline
              stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
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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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                maxcuttins @stormi
                last edited by

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

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                • olivierlambertO Offline
                  olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
                  last edited by

                  Nothing specific except Windows XP support dropped in Xen.

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                    maxcuttins @maxcuttins
                    last edited by

                    @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.

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                    • borzelB Offline
                      borzel XCP-ng Center Team
                      last edited by

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

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                      • stormiS Offline
                        stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                        last edited by

                        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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                        • borzelB Offline
                          borzel XCP-ng Center Team @stormi
                          last edited by

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

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                          • borzelB Offline
                            borzel XCP-ng Center Team @borzel
                            last edited by borzel

                            @stormi Supportplan? Or just Releases?

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                            • stormiS Offline
                              stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                              last edited by

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

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                              • borzelB Offline
                                borzel XCP-ng Center Team @stormi
                                last edited by

                                @stormi πŸ˜‰

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                                • lawrencesystemsL Offline
                                  lawrencesystems Ambassador
                                  last edited by

                                  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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                                  • stormiS Offline
                                    stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                                    last edited by

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

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                                    • stormiS Offline
                                      stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
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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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                                      • akurzawaA Offline
                                        akurzawa
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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?

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                                        • stormiS Offline
                                          stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                                          last edited by

                                          github's wiki is not my preferred solution, but it's the most straightforward to let people contribute without first creating an account. In my opinion, that wiki is decent enough and what matters most for now is the contents that is present or missing.

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                                            tuxen Top contributor @stormi
                                            last edited by tuxen

                                            @stormi I've just created a github account but it was flagged right after trying to edit the wiki 😞

                                            Is there some sort of permission?

                                            FYI, I couldn't edit the wiki without an account. The edit button only appears after signed in.

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