On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 01:02:29PM -0400, James Slagle wrote:
Hello TripleO Owls,
Our documentation, particularly the deploy guide, has become overly complex with all the branches that TripleO has supported over the years. I see notes that document functionality specific to releases all the way back to Mitaka!
In ancient history, we made the decision to not branch our documentation because the work to maintain multiple branches outweighed the effort to just document all releases at once in the same branch.
I think the scale has now tipped in the other direction. I propose that we create a stable/wallaby in tripleo-docs, and begin making the master branch specific to Yoga. This would also mean we could clean up all the old notes and admonitions about previous releases on the master branch.
Agreed! As it stands, even wallaby is quite different than victoria and earlier for the overcloud deployment and https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/tripleo-docs/latest/deployme... isn't particular helpful after a point. I've tried to update it a few times with the "bare essential" steps but it feels so badly forked, I couldn't follow it.
Going forward, if you make a change to the docs that applies to Yoga and Wallaby, you would need to backport that change to stable/wallaby.
If you needed to make a change that applied only to Wallaby (or a prior release), you would make that change only on stable/wallaby.
I'm not sure of all the plumbing required to make it so that the OpenStack Wallaby deploy guide builds from stable/wallaby, etc, but I wanted to get the idea out there first for feedback. Please let me know your thoughts. Thank you!
-- -- James Slagle --
I think it's a great idea! Cheers, Brent -- Brent Eagles Principal Software Engineer Red Hat Inc.