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<title>Revisions</title>
- <para>
- <revhistory>
- <revision>
- <revnumber>1.0</revnumber>
- <date>June 2011</date>
- <author><orgname>Whamcloud, Inc</orgname></author>
- <revremark>First release of Lustre 2.x manual</revremark>
- </revision>
-</revhistory>
-</para>
-</chapter>
+ <para>The Lustre* File System Release 2.x Operations Manual is a community
+maintained work. Versions of the manual are continually built as suggestions for
+changes and improvements arrive. Suggestions for improvements can be submitted
+through the ticketing system maintained at <link
+xl:href="http://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LUDOC">https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LUDOC</link>.
+Instructions for providing a patch to the existing manual are available at:
+<link
+xl:href="https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Making+changes+to+the+Lustre+Manual+source">https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Making+changes+to+the+Lustre+Manual+source</link>.</para>
+
+ <para>This manual currently covers all the 2.x Lustre software releases.
+Features that are specific to individual releases are identified within the
+table of contents using a short hand notation (i.e. 'L24' is a Lustre software
+release 2.4 specific feature), and within the text using a distinct box. For
+example:</para>
+
+ <para condition='l24'>Lustre software release version 2.4 includes support
+for multiple metadata servers.</para>
+
+ <para>Only the latest revision of this document is made readily available
+because changes are continually arriving. The current and latest revision of
+this manual is available from links maintained at: <link
+xl:href="http://lustre.opensfs.org/documentation/">http://lustre.opensfs.org/documentation/</link>.
+
+ <revhistory>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>0</revnumber>
+ <date>Built on <?dbtimestamp format="d B Y X"?></date>
+ <author>
+ <orgname>Intel Corporation</orgname>
+ </author>
+ <revremark>Continuous build of Manual.</revremark>
+ </revision>
+ </revhistory>
+ </para>
+</section>