RFR: 7194 : No local JVMs found message could be more helpful

[Michael S.]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:42:27 GMT, Marcus Hirt <hirt at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> There is a suggestion to update the FAQ
>> 
>> OK, but the content of ths repo file is different from the FAQs content I found by Google, to which my PR description refers.
>> 
>> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/jmc/JMC+FAQ
>> https://community.oracle.com/tech/developers/discussion/2579717/jmc-frequently-asked-questions
>
> Feel free to update the JMC-included documentation if you feel it improves it. :) The project itself mostly concerns itself with the included documentation, not the Oracle-hosted FAQ.

OK, IMO we have this situation:

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/jmc/JMC+FAQ (last updated 02/2020) is the location for publishing the FAQ currently and in the future. It's a Confluence system, and there's no way to sync this with a Git document, because Confluence has it's own versioning.
That means the purpose of the repo FAQ (last update 01/2019) could be not more than for saving the raw content (the HTML format is only used for better reading, otherwise it could be even plain text).

Is my view correct?

To me the published FAQ looks much more useful than the repo FAQ. If you ask me, I would replace the repo with the content from the published FAQ, and add the answer from this PR.

At least we have the content of both in sync then.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jmc/pull/232