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<div>Hi folks,</div>
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<div>We have had about five new ATCs to Kolla over the last month. The four biggest impact areas for new contributors to make an improvement in the code is related to:</div>
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<li>Documentation</li><li>Functional gating</li><li>Docker containers</li><li>Ansible roles for the Docker containers</li></ul>
<div>I have noticed that the new successful contributors start out writing documentation for the Kolla project. Interestingly most of these new contributors are in APAC; therefore English is a second language. What is fascinating is these contributors make
the best of it, and through our native English speaker reviewers produce high quality native-speaking documentation here:</div>
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<div><a href="http://docs.openstack.org/developer/kolla/">http://docs.openstack.org/developer/kolla/</a></div>
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<div>One immediate area folks could help out if they want to improve the Kolla project Is writing per-service documentation that follows the style here:</div>
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<div><a href="https://github.com/openstack/kolla/blob/master/doc/cinder-guide.rst">https://github.com/openstack/kolla/blob/master/doc/cinder-guide.rst</a></div>
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<div>We need documentation for the following services:</div>
<div>HA Guide</div>
<div>Design Guide</div>
<div>Keystone</div>
<div>Glance</div>
<div>Nova</div>
<div>Neutron</div>
<div>Murano</div>
<div>Horizon</div>
<div>Heat</div>
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<div>If your not a native english speaker, it is no problem! One of the core reviewers that is a native english speaker will be happy to offer editing suggestions on grammar/spelling/syntax. The hard part is the technical aspect of things, which is where you
can really help out! Once some documentation work is done, the new contributors generally have a much better understanding of Kolla which puts you in a position to make bigger impacts around Kolla's other 3 focus areas.</div>
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<div>If your a new OpenStack developer looking for a hot OpenStack project to work on with a fantastic friendly enthusiastic community that will allow you to obtain mastery in Container based software deployment, OpenStack deployment, Docker, and Ansible, Kolla
could use your attention.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
<div>-steve</div>
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