-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi everyone, I am seeking re-election as Documentation PTL for Newton. I have now been the docs PTL for two releases (Liberty and Mitaka), and would love another term in the middle of the alphabet! We've achieved a lot this time around, including an almost complete conversion to RST, quite a few structural overhauls of popular books, and some fundamental toolchain improvements. There is still lots to be done, though, and I would love your support to achieve this in Newton. During Liberty we got the bulk of our books migrated away from Docbook XML and into RST. In Mitaka, we completed that work (with only the Ops Guide remaining to be converted in Newton). For the last couple of releases, we've also had a focus on improving the information architecture of our books, and have now successfully completed overhauls of our most popular books, with the Architecture Guide also well underway. All of these tasks will be carried over to Newton, with many of them finally coming to completion. In Newton, I would also like to address some of the larger issues around the organisation of our documentation suite, making it easier for developers to contribute quality code to our docs, and better welcoming and introducing new big tent projects to the documentation team. At the Mitaka summit in Tokyo, we decided to make a concerted effort to pay down a lot of our tech debt, and one of the main ways we chose to do that was to change the way we handled the DocImpact flag in our bugs. We merged those changes to DocImpact about a month ago now, and it is already having a significant impact on the amount of untriaged bugs outstanding. We're now much more able to keep on top of our bug queue, which is giving us a much greater ability to pay down tech debt. In this vein, we also have put a lot of effort into ensuring new contributors have a better onboarding experience to docs, with the creation of our new Contributor Guide which replaces a lot of old wiki-based content, a great 'get started with docs' campaign at the last Summit (which resulted in a hard copy article in the Summit edition of SuperUser, and Anne and I on SuperUser TV), and a general willingness to respond to questions on the mailing lists and help out new users wherever we find them. In the Liberty release cycle, we closed just over 600 bugs, and we're very close to matching that number for Mitaka, with 505 bugs closed as I write this. Again, we've managed to keep on top of the aging bugs as well, with all bugs older than a year now closed. In the Mitaka release, we managed to close 16 blueprints, which is a massive increase over Liberty's 7. I'm very excited about making the trek to Austin soon for the Newton summit, to catch up with old friends, and hopefully meet some of our newest contributors. Please be sure to stop for a chat if you see me around :) I'd love to have your support for the PTL role for Newton, and I'm looking forward to continuing to grow the documentation team. Thanks, Lana (@loquacities) - -- Lana Brindley Technical Writer Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia http://lanabrindley.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJW5g++AAoJELppzVb4+KUy9LAH/RC5y/gM22qywGZaE2y4hWEc b+xdCxFUuh41l3WJhQ2iRJrnZUjm84doG2eCIcCpJW/OC5udo+2GiQYGmLUH278A uz8Rfglsu/SmDhWZbaIWtiKXo3WedmWzXUbBCV7/+aftphKLMdckD1KAharZZOWq Jqzg56SjWRqzbO++XiciCVwQ+zgoGuzJzYEQ1SsYsAdp/+wdtO2qPORZO1UuoOfz wFFS/OG8O4PsJa3e9KW/kHzDY3Emkz7bhqDcbE6w3HyszC6bEq8lDgmcXtg2SoNn FzjEpoiiAyalncUfo3p+v+7CV/3M/N4nCB2K+VhYO0hIAxPgUMxhrP3jzzq/gSI= =sboQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----