[Info-vax] Layered products, the HP view !?!

[Dirk Munk]

clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 9:56:45 AM UTC-4, clairg... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> I was under the impression that VMS 8.4-1H1 would be nothing else than
>>> an adaptation to make it possible to run VMS on the i4.
>>
>> That was the intent. The big thing we did was fix a long-standing bug that preventing booting on a particular i4 blade memory configuration.
>>
>>
>>> But now I
>>> understand VSI also made small but important bug fixes on all kind of
>>> layered products. Impressive!
>>
>> We found a few things that we thought were worth fixing now rather than waiting for an update release.
>>
>>> Dis you rebuild all layered products, even
>>> if there were no changes in the sources?
>>>
>>> I tried to find a description of the complete 8.4-1H1 release on the VSI
>>> web site, but alas no luck. Will you be issuing Software Product
>>> Descriptions? I always liked to read those, simple well structured and
>>> precise documents. So much better than colourful marketing brochures
>>> trying to describe a product and failing to do so accurately.
>>
>> Well-timed question. We have SPDs and I'm told that they should appear on our website later today. If that doesn't happen I'll pursue it.
>
> Sorry, I was mistaken. What is being made available today is the final media kit (which includes the SPDs) for the Field Test sites on their special website. SPDs available for everyone to see will be coming soon, I hope, on our main website.
>
> We know we have not done very well with the website so far and are trying to get better.
>

Yes indeed, a good and informative website is very important. Please 
keep it as simple and well organised as VMS documentation :-) .