[ltt-dev] Feedback on the lttng.org website

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Pierre-Marc Fournier (pierre-marc.fournier at polymtl.ca) wrote:
> Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > * Gregory Haskins (gregory.haskins at gmail.com) wrote:
> >> Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >>> * Gregory Haskins (gregory.haskins at gmail.com) wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>> Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >>>>     
> >>>>> Hi everyone,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I just noticed the following website:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.thhp.org.uk/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> where LTTng is cited as a "LTTng, for example, is certainly a finer
> >>>>> engineering effort than its documentation would have you believe".
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So, not being such a skilled documentation writer nor web designer, I'd
> >>>>> like to ask:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Do you guys have recommendations to improve the LTTng website ? (layout,
> >>>>> design, ...)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Are there some missing pieces of documentation that would be relevant to
> >>>>> put on the website ? Anyone willing to help on this ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hoping this might help newcomers to have a better experience with the
> >>>>> LTTng website,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks !
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mathieu
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>       
> >>>> FWIW: Providing a link to the pre-built version of the tools may help a
> >>>> newcomer ease into using the system.  Here is a repost of the link to
> >>>> the wiki I have put together:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/LTTng-Package-Repositories
> >>>>
> >>>> I plan on adding a section on how to install for opensuse (since that is
> >>>> what I have readily available).  I will try to fire up a fedora VM and
> >>>> try an install there as well to see if I can generate some documentation.
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>> Hrm, it makes me think:
> >>>
> >>> providing a qemu image with LTTng pre-installed could be very useful for
> >>> newcomers. This should come along with step-by-step documentation. Do
> >>> you think this idea makes sense ?
> >>>   
> >> Yes, I think it does.  FWIW: you can build these kinds of "appliance"
> >> things in SuSE studio (http://susestudio.com/)
> >>
> >> I can try to put one together, if you like.
> >>
> > 
> > Yes, that would be great !
> > 
> > In addition to documentation, a "qemu-lttng-install" script that
> > 
> > wget the image
> > checks if qemu is installed
> > runs it with the proper parameters
> > 
> > would probably make end user life easier.
> > 
> 
> Actually, wouldn't instructions/scripts for using the image with kvm be
> more appropriate?

Or both.. aren't the images for qemu and kvm almost the same?

> 
> Concerning the script, typically a single command is enough. So I'm not
> sure it's worth a script.
> 

Good point.

Mathieu


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