Re: [uml-devel] User Mode Linux

[Richard W. <ri...@no...>]

Am 20.07.2016 um 19:47 schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf:
> Hello Richard,
> 
> On Wed, 2016-07-20 at 19:39 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>> The documentation which still is active and useful[1] is marked as "old" on
>> the
>>> website.
>>> The wiki [2] on the other hand, points to a link with no content at all.
>>>  
>>> Could you please share on what the roadmap and future plans for UML are?
> 
>> Well, I maintain the UML kernel component. That meas I keep it running, fix
>> regressions
>> and try to answer questions from other developers.
>> Since I do this in my spare time there is not much time left for adding new
>> features.
> 
>> So, my roadmap is "keep it alive" :-)
> 
> 
> Okay! Thanks for the update. I had the same impression and am glad to read that
> you will continue to maintain it.
> 
>>> And for the documentation on the old site, do you have it in a Source Markup
>>> Language? What we've used now is a dump of the website from [1]
> 
>> I don't have such a dump. But I agree that we need to rework the website.
>> It is very, very old.
>> Maybe it is worth adding a UML section to http://kernelnewbies.org/?
> 
> IN my opinion, the kernel wiki may be a better option for long term maintenance.
> https://wiki.kernel.org/

Agreed.

> The main page for wiki points no login link. But once you get into one of the
> sub wikis, you can see the login link.
> Take this link for example: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=Specia
> l:UserLogin&returnto=Main+Page
> 
> Maybe you could ask the kernel infra team to create a sub-wiki house for uml ?
> And then we can all help migrate the content ?

Just sent a request to get a wiki instance. :-)

Thanks,
//richard