[OpenStack-docs] Config Reference and olso.config sphinx extension - Need help

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Tue May 10 13:32:09 UTC 2016


On 2016-05-10 15:25, Matt Kassawara wrote:
> Andreas,
> 
> I receive quite a few complaints that our automatic documentation merely
> copies help strings in the code instead of providing additional
> information. We could ask developers to provide additional information
> in the help strings, but it would cause large example configuration
> files or excessive CLI output. So, I made a suggestion at the summit
> (with Doug) to split help strings into short and long versions. The
> short version would appear in example configuration files or CLI output
> and the long version would appear in our automatic documentation.

Interesting idea. It's something that could be made optional. KATO, what
do you think?

Andreas
> 
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com
> <mailto:aj at suse.com>> wrote:
> 
>     At the OpenStack summit we discussed whether and how to use oslo.config
>     directly to generate configuration options for the Configuration
>     Reference.
> 
>     One idea was to move the flagmappings to the project repositories and
>     let them maintain it.
> 
>     Is anybody interested in working with Doug on this? First Doug needs to
>     understand our requirement - so writing those up would be the first
>     part.
> 
>     Andreas
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