Open Stack

I'm writing to announce my candidacy for the Documentation Program
Technical Lead (PTL).

The past six months have flown by. I still recall writing up wish lists
per-deliverable on the plane home from the Atlanta Summit and the great
news is many are completed. Of course we still have a lot to do.

We face many challenges as an open source community as we grow and define
ourselves through our users. As documentation specialists, we have to be
creative with our resourcing for documentation as the number of teams and
services increases each release. This release we have:
- experimented with using RST sourcing for a chapter about Heat Templates
- managed to keep automating where it makes sense, using the toolset we
keep improving upon
- held another successful book sprint for the Architecture and Design Guide
- split out a repo for the training group focusing not only on training
guides but also scripts and other training specialties
- split out the Security Guide with their own review team; completed a
thorough review of that guide
- split out the High Availability Guide with their own review team from
discussions at the Ops Meetup
- began a Networking Guide pulling together as many interested parties as
possible before and after the Ops Meetup with a plan for hiring a contract
writer to work on it with the community
- added the openstack common client help text to the CLI Reference
- added Chinese, German, French, and Korean language landing pages to the
docs site
- generated config option tables with each milestone release (with few
exceptions of individual projects)
- lost a key contributor to API docs (Diane's stats didn't decline far yet:
http://stackalytics.com/?user_id=diane-fleming&release=juno)
- still working towards a new design for page-based docs
- still working on API reference information
- still working on removing "spec" API documents to avoid duplication and
confusion
- still testing three of four install guides for the JUNO release (that
we're nearly there is just so great)

So you can see we have much more to do, but we have come so far. Even in
compiling this list I worry I'm missing items, there's just so much scope
to OpenStack docs. We serve users, deployers, administrators, and app
developers. It continues to be challenging but we keep looking for ways to
make it work.

We have seen amazing contributors like Andreas Jaeger, Matt Kassawara,
Gauvain Pocentek, and Christian Berendt find their stride and shine. Yes, I
could name more but these people have done an incredible job this release.

I'm especially eager to continue collaborating with great managers like
Nick Chase at Mirantis and Lana Brindley at Rackspace -- they see what we
can accomplish when enterprise doc teams work well with an upstream.
They're behind-the-scenes much of the time but I must express my gratitude
to these two pros up front.

Thanks for your consideration. I'd be honored to continue to serve in this
role.
Anne
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