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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Neal, Phil (Cloud Services) <
phil.neal at hp.com> wrote:

> The documentation on how to make updates to the content at
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ceilometer/... doesn't seem to exist,
> so
> I'm hoping that someone can shed some light on the process or point me to
> the right spot...
>
> Here's what I'm running into:
>
> 1. It looks like we're maintaining documentation in our Ceilometer repo
> (https://github.com/openstack/ceilometer vs. the centralized set at
> https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals.git). No problems there,
> just
> need confirmation.
>

Yes. Ceilometer has just become integrated, and before then we were
maintaining our own docs. Now we are going to be working with the docs team
to integrate with the other manuals. In the mean time, we agreed to
continue adding docs to the existing source files so we could merge it all
at one time, when ready.


>
> 2. It seems like the correct approach is to make edits as needed to the
> content  ceilometer/docs/source directory, then run the Sphinx "make html"
> command to generate the html files. I'm running into a host of errors,
> though, so I'm questioning if this is the right tool.
>

You'll need a system with ceilometer and its dependencies installed, and
then you should run "python setup.py build_sphinx" to make sure all of the
auto-generated files are created.


>
> 3. I'm not understanding the connection between the content of the .rst
> files and what appears on the web site...it seems like there's some content
> that's getting generated that doesn't exist in the code or the .rst
> files....is it black magic?
>

There are some auto-doc directives used to pull text in from the
documentation embedded in the source code. That's especially the case for
the web API documentation. You shouldn't need to worry about any of that
for the changes you want, except that you need to be able to install
ceilometer in order for it to work.

Doug


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>
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