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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[At the outset, I apologize, I may be late to this train. I hadn’t subscribed to this mailing list.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The current structure of the install guide allows for a way to specify per-distro commands inside a file using the “only” directive. However, the install-guides that have been worked on so far have separate
rst files for each distribution, examples: Heat [1] Magnum [2]. Spyros proposed to update the cookie-cutter to follow this style [3].
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">While I think this is a fine approach… source content wise, that this is not as easily “maintainable”, because we are duplicating a lot of similar information between these documents. I wanted to mimic what
openstack-manuals is doing with the current install-guide. I put up the manila patch [3], and it currently builds to targets ‘install-guide/build-rdo’, ‘install-guide/build-ubuntu’, ‘install-guide/build-obs’, ‘install-guide/build-debian’.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I wanted to gather opinions on this approach.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[1] http://docs.openstack.org/project-install-guide/orchestration/draft/index.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/330051/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/332161/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/317152/
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Goutham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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