Re: [Users] Getting some 3.1 screencasts
On 07/05/2012 01:11 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi everyone,
At the team meeting today Jason Clift suggested that it would be great
to have some screencasts for the 3.1 release. I agree. So let's see if
we can make some!
To spread the load as much as possible, here's what I propose:
1. We come up with a set (5-10) of demo stories we want to tell in the
wiki. These should contain:
* The feature we want to demo
* The "before recording" set-up that needs to be done
* The steps to demo the feature
* A quick script that someone can follow to explain what they're doing.
I'd like a few of these scripts to be for existing oVirt features
(say, migrating a VM to a different node) and a few to be for features
which are new in 3.1 (see the release notes at
http://ovirt.org/wiki/Release_Notes_Draft for details there, we should
pick one or two nice visible features like all-in-one install).
How are we going to decide on these features we want to demo? Also some
of the features like Glusterfs integration might be to complex for a 5
to 10 min video.
2. From the scripts, we record the demos as .ogv using
RecordMyDesktop
or GNOME Shell's built-in desktop recording
3. Finally, we do voice-overs to add a sound track to the demo (and if
we have any skilled sound engineers, some tasteful CC licenced
background music would be great!)
This way, we've broken down the creation of 5 screencasts into 15
different byte-sized tasks - script, video, voiceover - none of which
should take someone more that 20 minutes or half an hour - which
hopefully will make it easier to get them done together.
How does this plan sound?
Sounding like a good overview now it is time to get into
the mud and
figure out how to implement that.
If it sounds good, which features do you think we should screencast as
top priority?
Well I think you have already hit one of the most useful ones.
1) VM migrations
Other simple idea that might make useful video's are.
2) The Log Collector (engine-log-collector), Maybe even showing the
creation of a BZ report?
3) Uploading ISO (engine-iso-uploader), May be a little simple but we
could combine with getting the ISO for windows drivers?
4) How to upload images (engine-image-uploader) or Migrating from
another system using something like virt-v2v / virt-p2v
5) Cloning a Virtual Machine from a Snapshot.
6) Creating Templates
7) Pinning Virtual Machines to specific physical CPUs
8) Setup multiple networks showing how to activate and connecting to a
hosts.
9) Adding storage domains? Building a data center?
10) Exporting VM for backup or moving to another data center.
Thanks
Robert
Thanks!
Dave.