Re: [PATCH v2] docs: add workload-tracing document to admin-guide

[Shuah Khan]

On 1/30/23 16:52, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On 1/28/23 01:35, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > Adding another section that doesn't seem to a be a good fit feels a bit
> > > like "making things worse than better".  So wouldn't this maybe be a
> > > good opportunity to create a totally new top-level section for
> > > application developers and system integrators, even if it's tiny for
> > > now? The audience is likely big enough to justify that -- and the topics
> > > are likely different enough, too (of course sometimes there will be
> > > overlap, as always). Any maybe it will help to bring other stuff over
> > > from admin guide that is more targeted for application developers and
> > > system integrators, which will help to get more structure into the
> > > admin-guide.
> >
> > I like the idea of creating a new top-level section for application developers
> > and system integrators. I foresee this section growing and also we can look
> > at other documents that are a good fit under this category and move them over.
> >
> > Jon, Thoughts on this.
>
> The fit with the admin guide caught my attention as well, but I didn't
> immediately have a better place to suggest.  I am somewhat resistant to
> creating another top-level directory; I really want to have *fewer* of
> them.  I certainly don't want to create one for a single document.  My
> inclination would be to leave it where it is for now; we can always
> revisit this if it turns out we have a lot of material that justifies a
> new book.

Makes perfect sense. I didn't want to suggest a new top level for the same
reasons. For now I will send v3 keeping it in the same location.

I will take a pass at the existing documents under admin-guide and in other
places to see if others could be grouped under a top-level as suggested by
Thorsten

thanks,
-- Shuah