G'Day Folks,

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Eric Lowe wrote:

> Brendan Gregg wrote:
> > ... it would be a good
> > idea we could move the DTrace Guide to opensolaris.org - which
> > has excellent uptime and we know how to create referers. :)
>
> +1. I think the guide definitely belongs in the community. Let's get it
> opened up.

If people wern't aware, weeks ago the URLs on docs.sun.com changed and
referers were not created - breaking hundreds of Internet links
(including links listed in the examples in /usr/demo/dtrace). Then last
week the content itself was broken for a number of days. I fear what
will happen next!

If the DTrace Guide was moved to OpenSolaris, not only would we have
better uptime but it would be easier for the community to contribute.
I understand that docs.sun.com has a versioning process such that updates
must wait until the next product-id is released; what we could achieve on
OpenSolaris would be more dynamic, with a public feedback mechanism
(mailing lists).

On a side note - it would actually help immensely to know who's who in
docs.sun.com, such as making an org-chart visable. For example, I know
who the DTrace team are, and I've always had a productive relationship
with them. I've no idea about the makeup of docs.sun.com. I know Sun has
over 30,000 staff, and docs.sun.com is a significant component of Sun (as
viewed from the outside); so does this make the docs.sun.com team over
1,000 staff?

cheers,

Brendan











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