[Sheepdog] Next version and user documentation

[Matthew Law]

Also,

Unless someone is working on it already, I would like to try and build
packages of the next release for debian.  I've never done it before (not
publicly anyway) so I don't know what it really involves (and I would
welcome help too) but it would certainly help my own use of sheepdog.

I agree that there is so much more to sheepdog than the website indicates.
 Perhaps we could pool efforts together to make better documentation
(especially for newcomers) and introduce a sheepdog-discuss list too for
the non-developer audience? - just my thoughts as a user/observer.

On an unrelated note, I noticed this yesterday which claims ElasticHosts
have been using sheepdog in production for some time:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/03/elastichosts_managed_services_cloud/


Matt.

On Fri, May 4, 2012 8:33 am, David Douard wrote:
> On 26/04/2012 11:21, Liu Yuan wrote:
>> On 04/26/2012 03:12 PM, David Douard wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> there has been a while since the publication of version 0.3.0. Are you
>>> planning an official release soon? If so, will there be a
>>> changelog/what's new documentation?
>>>
>>> If so, there is IMHO a huge need for more documentation (as always, I
>>> know). The README is a nice quickstart guide, but there is no real user
>>> or admin documentation answering things like:
>>>
>>> - how do I configure sheepdog? (and what can be configured?),
>>> - what are the available stores? How do I choose/configure a backend
>>> store? should I consider using farm? how?
>>> - and most important: how do I recover from critical situations? what
>>> to
>>> be aware of when a critical situation occurs? etc.
>>>
>>> Following the mailing list for a little while, I've noticed that some
>>> of
>>> the missing informations can be found in the mailing list.
>>>
>>>
>>> So, are you planning an official release soon? And do you plan to
>>> improve user documentation?
>>>
>>
>> Hi David,
>> 	Thanks for your dedicated work on sheepdog. Yes, I think we should
>> provide at least a user guide in 'doc' directory along with source code.
>> I'll patch up a new file dedicated for it, though it might be incomplete
>> with biased viewpoint, then anyone can patch upon it for improvement.
>>
>> 	For official release, I guess Kazum will give a better and
>> authoritative answer.
>
> Hi,
>
> Any news on some release plan?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Yuan
>
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