<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Sean Dague <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@dague.net" target="_blank">sean@dague.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On the plane home from the Nova midcycle meetup I spent a chunk of time<br>
reading our API docs that are now in tree:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/doc/source/v2/2.0_server_concepts.rst" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/doc/source/v2/2.0_server_concepts.rst</a><br>
and it got me concerned that documentation improvements don't seem to be<br>
the top priority on the API infrastructure side.<br>
<br>
The API concept guide is a really useful (though currently horribly out<br>
of date) document for someone trying to use the Nova API without reading<br>
all the Nova code. I feel like without that kind of big picture view,<br>
the Nova API is quite hard to sort out.<br>
<br>
I'd like to get updating that much higher up the priority list for the<br>
API subteam. I realize there is this large json home patch series out<br>
there to add new hotness to the API, but I feel like json home is<br>
premature until we've got a concept picture of the Nova API in<br>
documentation.<br>
<br>
How do we get this ball rolling? Who's up for helping? How do we get the<br>
concept guide back onto <a href="http://developer.openstack.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">developer.openstack.org</a> once it's not horribly<br>
out of date?<br>
<br>
I don't feel like I've got a plan yet in my head, but I'd really like to<br>
get one developed over the next couple of weeks so that we can actually<br>
make some real progress here. So who is up for helping, and what format<br>
this plan will take, are the key bits.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm up for helping, and it's related to our work on <a href="http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/docs-specs/specs/liberty/api-site.html" target="_blank">http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/docs-specs/specs/liberty/api-site.html</a>, because ideally we'll build the API dev guides on <a href="http://developer.openstack.org" target="_blank">developer.openstack.org</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Can you use the plan we've got now and help out? What would you adjust, the "narrative" portion publishing? </div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Anne </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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-Sean<br>
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Sean Dague<br>
<a href="http://dague.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dague.net</a><br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Anne Gentle</div><div>Rackspace</div><div>Principal Engineer</div><div><a href="http://www.justwriteclick.com" target="_blank">www.justwriteclick.com</a></div></div></div>
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