[Users] Getting some 3.1 screencasts

[Robert Middleswarth]

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.