[openstack-dev] [Openstack-docs] [Docs] Documentation PTL Candidacy

atul jha stackeratul at gmail.com
Tue Oct 1 09:10:02 UTC 2013


+1




On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Emilien Macchi <emilien.macchi at enovance.com
> wrote:

>  +1
>
> Anne is doing without any doubt an amazing job on OpenStack manuals.
>
> Thank you Anne,
>
> Emilien Macchi
> ----------------------------------------------------
> # OpenStack Engineer
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>
> On 09/22/2013 08:19 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I'm writing to declare my intention to run for OpenStack documentation
> program technical lead. [1]
>
>  I've been working on OpenStack docs since September 2010, and it has
> been an honor and a privilege to serve in this position informally prior to
> having documentation declared a program. I've been serving as the interim
> PTL as encouraged by my doc peers.
>
>  In Havana we've been hard at work (and continue to do so), refactoring
> the openstack-manuals repo to ensure installation, configuration, and
> administration info is as complete and accurate as we can, including the
> addition of automation tools for gathering configuration options into one
> location.
>
>  We've added an End User Guide, an Admin User Guide, and a Cloud
> Administration Guide to document OpenStack as a whole, including all the
> clients and the things you can do with your OpenStack clouds through
> command-line calls.
>
>  We also work on API documentation to bring you a compete reference
> listing of all OpenStack APIs including example requests and responses.
>
>  In the last year we've held two successful book sprints in the past year
> resulting in the OpenStack Operations Guide and the OpenStack Security
> Guide. We're actively recruiting writers for a book sprint to write an
> OpenStack Architecture Design Guide. The Operations Guide has been
> translated to Chinese and Japanese.
>
>  I believe the documentation PTL role is one of coordination, coaching,
> and providing platforms for documentation. This doesn't happen in isolation
> and requires constant attention and coordination. I do know our
> shortcomings and continue to work through the difficulties we face trying
> to document a fast-moving integrated set of projects. In the future I'd
> like to recruit more upstream OpenStack writers and have designated project
> doc leads.
>
>  I continue to be the top committer to the openstack-manuals repo [2] and
> I am an active reviewer of all docs repos. [3]
>
>  I'm proud of the work we've done so far and would be privileged to
> continue this most challenging work.
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
>  1. Wow, that sounds too formal, but that's what this email is.
> 2. https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/graphs/contributors
> 3. https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:anne%2540openstack.org,n,z
>
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