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

[Gregory Haskins]

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * 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?
>   

I am thinking this can all be done as a live-cd anyway, which would be
compatible with everything (qemu, kvm, bare-metal, whatever).  We can
include a .pdf (or something) that pops up when the system boots (I
already have it so it auto-logs into the "lttng-demo" account.

BTW: I've talked to the studio devs and I now know how to fix the kernel
issue.  So I am going to try to get a 2.6.30 based kernel (patched with
LTT, of course) installed into the image.

-Greg


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