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I think you will probably have to wait until after the summit so we can see
the direction that will be taken with the rest of the in-tree
drivers/plugins. It seems like we are moving towards removing all of them
so we would definitely need a solution to documenting out-of-tree drivers
as you suggested.

However, I think the minimum requirements for having a driver being
documented should be third-party testing of Neutron patches. Otherwise the
docs will become littered with a bunch of links to drivers/plugins with no
indication of what actually works, which ultimately makes Neutron look bad.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Vadivel Poonathan <
vadivel.openstack at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Anne,
>
> Thanks for your immediate response!...
>
> Just to clarify... I have developed and maintaining a Neutron plug-in (ML2
> mechanism_driver) since Grizzly and now it is up-to-date with Icehouse. But
> it was never listed nor part of the main Openstack releases. Now i would
> like to have my plugin mentioned as "supported plugin/mechanism_driver for
> so and so vendor equipments" in the docs.openstack.org, but without
> having the actual plugin code to be posted in the main Openstack GIT
> repository.
>
> Reason is that I dont have plan/bandwidth to go thru the entire process of
> new plugin blue-print/development/review/testing etc as required by the
> Openstack development community. Bcos this is already developed, tested and
> released to some customers directly. Now I just want to get it to the
> official Openstack documentation, so that more people can get this and use.
>
> The plugin package is made available to public from Ubuntu repository
> along with necessary documentation. So people can directly get it from
> Ubuntu repository and use it. All i need is to get listed in the
> docs.openstack.org so that people knows that it exists and can be used
> with any Openstack.
>
> Pls. confrim whether this is something possible?...
>
> Thanks again!..
>
> Vad
> --
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Vadivel Poonathan <
>> vadivel.openstack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How to include a new vendor plug-in (aka mechanism_driver in ML2
>>> framework) into the Openstack documentation?.. In other words, is it
>>> possible to include a new plug-in in the Openstack documentation page
>>> without having the actual plug-in code as part of the Openstack neutron
>>> repository?... The actual plug-in is posted and available for the public to
>>> download as Ubuntu package. But i need to mention somewhere in the
>>> Openstack documentation that this new plugin is available for the public to
>>> use along with its documentation.
>>>
>>
>> We definitely want you to include pointers to vendor documentation in the
>> OpenStack docs, but I'd prefer make sure they're gate tested before they
>> get listed on docs.openstack.org. Drivers change enough
>> release-to-release that it's difficult to keep up maintenance.
>>
>> Lately I've been talking to driver contributors (hypervisor, storage,
>> networking) about the out-of-tree changes possible. I'd like to encourage
>> even out-of-tree drivers to get listed, but to store their main documents
>> outside of docs.openstack.org, if they are gate-tested.
>>
>> Anyone have other ideas here?
>>
>> Looping in the OpenStack-docs mailing list also.
>> Anne
>>
>>
>>
>>> Pls. provide some insights into whether it is possible?.. and any
>>> further info on this?..
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Vad
>>>
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