[Ocfs2-tools-devel] Update: Re: ocfs2-tools.git is moving, ocfs2 web site plans

[Goldwyn Rodrigues]

Hi Mark,

On 02/13/2015 04:56 PM, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 01:02:03PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote:
>> The other issue I wanted to discuss was the 'official' ocfs2 web
>> page. By 'official', I mean the page we refer users to in our kernel
>> documentation. Right now it's http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
>> which is somewhat Oracle specific, but more importantly has the same
>> restrictions as the git tree (I or other interested parties can no
>> longer edit it).
>>
>> I'm looking into securing ourselves a new 'official' page, which can give a
>> description of Ocfs2 and also link to any Oracle or SUSE pages, so their
>> users know where to go. Again I don't envision anything at SUSE or Oracle
>> has to change here, just that if someone opens up linux-2.6.git/fs/ocfs2.txt
>> it points them somewhere common to all Ocfs2 development (and we can branch
>> out from there). Also, in the future it would be nice if we put design docs
>> on an official site.
>>
>> Right now I'm hoping I can get ocfs2.wiki.kernel.org going, otherwise I
>> could always put it in another github project (or the ocfs2-tools project).
>> If anyone has suggestions, please let me know. Also if anyone could help
>> with any web/wiki for the project, also let me know. Both wiki.kernel.org
>> and github wikis allow multiple collaborators.
>
> The fine folks at kernel.org have given us a wiki:
>
> https://ocfs2.wiki.kernel.org/
>
> It is very bare right now, but I made sure to link to as much important
> information as possible (including the oss.oracle.com page). From what I
> understand, you should be able to edit it with your Linux Foundation ID. If
> you don't have one, it's very simple to create:
>
> https://identity.linuxfoundation.org/
>
> If anyone is willing to help with this, I would appreciate it, otherwise
> I'll fill things in at my own pace. In particular, I'd like to import our
> old design docs from:
>
> https://oss.oracle.com/osswiki/OCFS2.html
>
> In general, I feel these would also be good to have on the wiki:
>
> - some examples where Ocfs2 is used and why it's good there (web servers, virtual machines, databases)
>
> - more information on our feature set (in particular, reflink)
>
>
> I should be sending a patch to update our kernel docs with the new git /
> homepage links shortly.
>

Thanks a lot for doing this. Hopefully, now incorporating patches in the 
git would be faster and efficient.

In the meantime, I will work on improving the wiki pages.

Regards,

-- 
Goldwyn