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Hi everyone,

The DocImpact flag was implemented back in Havana to make it easier for developers to notify the documentation team when a patch might cause a change in the docs. This has had an overwhelming response, resulting in a huge amount of technical debt for the docs team, so we've been working on a plan to change how DocImpact works. This way, instead of just creating a lot of noise, it will hopefully go back to being a useful tool. This is written in more detail in our spec[1], but this email attempts to hit the highlights for you.

TL;DR: In the future, you will need to add a description whenever you add a DocImpact flag in your commit message. 

Right now, if you create a patch and include 'DocImpact' in the commit message, Infra raises a bug in either the openstack-manuals queue, or (for some projects) your own project queue. DocImpact is capable of handling a description field, but this is rarely used. Instead, docs writers are having to dig through your patch to determine what (if any) change is required.

What we are now implementing has two main facets:
    
* The DocImpact flag can only be used if it includes a description. A Jenkins job will test for this, and if you include DocImpact without a description, the job will fail. The description can be a short note about what needs changing in the docs, a link to a gist or etherpad with more information, or a note about the location of incorrect docs. There are specific examples in the spec[2].
* Only Nova, Swift, Glance, Keystone, and Cinder will have DocImpact bugs created in the openstack-manuals queue. All other projects will have DocImpact bugs raised in their own queue. This is handled in [3] and [4].

This will hopefully reduce the volume of DocImpact bugs being created in the openstack-manuals queue, and also improve the quality of the bugs that are created.

I know there is a fair amount of confusion over DocImpact already, so I'm more than happy to field questions on this.

Thanks,
Lana


1: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/docs-specs/specs/mitaka/review-docimpact.html
2: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/docs-specs/specs/mitaka/review-docimpact.html#examples
3: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/248515/
4: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/248549/

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Lana Brindley
Technical Writer
Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
http://lanabrindley.com
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