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On 4 June 2015 at 11:39, Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Brian Moss <kallimachos at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> We're kicking off the conversion of the Cloud Admin Guide from XML to RST
>> (
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/Migrate#Cloud_Admin_Guide_Migration).
>> While we're doing this, we'd like to put a temporary freeze on development
>> of the guide so we don't have the XML changing beneath us.  To this end,
>> could everyone please hold off on making changes to the Cloud Admin Guide
>> until we announce the conversion is complete.
>>
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> Hi Brian,
>
> One thing we did due to the long migration times for the user guides was
> to request a change to both the XML and RST in any patchset during the
> migration period. There weren't too many of those, but you may consider it
> for the time period so the freeze isn't preventing improved content in the
> meantime.
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> Since we needed 3 months to migrate the other two guides (mid-Feb to
> mid-May), and this release is only 5.5 months, you should probably try
> either not to freeze or to migrate more quickly.
>
> Just a consideration based on past experience -- you may have already
> found a way to migrate more content quickly.
> Thanks,
> Anne
>


Hi Anne,

That's a good idea.  I'm feeling my way somewhat here, so having the
benefit of past experience is much appreciated.

User Guide team et al., how do you feel about requesting XML and RST for
patches while we're doing the migration rather than freezing the doc?

-Brian



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>> If you happen to find yourself reviewing an XML Cloud Admin Guide patch
>> in the next few weeks, please let the author know about the freeze and ask
>> them to resubmit an RST patch when the conversion is finished.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Brian
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