[openstack-dev] [all] Cross-project DevRef Was Re: Skipping Cross-Project meeting today

Jay Bryant jsbryant at electronicjungle.net
Wed Jan 21 03:21:20 UTC 2015


+2  This topic had come up in Cinder I believe as well.

Having a common devref for common content would be good and would make it
easier to keep the documentation current.

Jay
On Jan 20, 2015 4:05 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/20/2015 01:30 PM, Ian Cordasco wrote:
>
>> On Jan 20, 2015, at 05:23, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Given that the agenda docket is pretty slim this week, I'd like to
>>> skip this cross-project meeting and have the next one on Jan 27.
>>>
>>> sigmavirus24 posted the "Cross-project DevRef akin to Nova's" item
>>> but I'd prefer if we discussed it on the mailing-list first (not
>>> certain it requires everyone's attention just yet, and could just
>>> be proposed as a spec).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>>>
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>> Hey all,
>>
>> First, let me provide some context. The week before last, an update
>> to sqlalchemy-migrate broke glance’s gate. While helping us fix the
>> problem, Matt Riedemann noticed that the project doesn’t have a
>> Developer Reference document. The document helps new developers
>> determine what system packages they need to build a development
>> environment for the project.
>>
>> We discussed the idea of putting one together for glance at the team
>> meeting last week. While discussing it, we realized a lot of the
>> steps are similar to Nova’s and it might benefit OpenStack as a whole
>> to have one common DevRef that links off to individual ones for
>> further configuration. The list of common steps could be maintained
>> in one place (rather than synchronized between projects) and then
>> individual extensions would be maintained with in each project or
>> wiki.
>>
>> Before we started duplicating content in our own document, we wanted
>> to present the idea to the cross-project team and the community as a
>> whole.
>>
>> Feedback is greatly appreciated, Ian
>>
>
> I think a common shared developer reference is a great idea, Ian. ++
>
> -jay
>
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