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On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 11:16 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Excerpts from Matt Riedemann's message of 2016-09-21 09:49:29 -0500:
> > 
> > Nova has policy defaults in code now and we can generate the
> > sample 
> > using oslopolicy-sample-generator but we'd like to get the default 
> > policy sample in the Nova developer documentation also, like we
> > have for 
> > nova.conf.sample.
> > 
> > I see we use the sphinxconfiggen extension for building the 
> > nova.conf.sample in our docs, but I don't see anything like that
> > for 
> > generating docs for a sample policy file.
> > 
> > Has anyone already started working on that, or is interested in
> > working 
> > on that? I've never written a sphinx extension before but I'm
> > guessing 
> > it could be borrowed a bit from how sphinxconfiggen was written in 
> > oslo.config.
> > 
> 
> I don't have time to do it myself, but I can help get someone else
> started and work with them on code reviews in oslo.policy.

I can take a look at this, though I'll only persue a "sphinxpolicygen"
module for now (we don't use oslo_config's "sphinxext" module yet).

Stephen