[openstack-dev] [docs] Our Install Guides Only Cover Defcore - What about big tent?
Steve Gordon
sgordon at redhat.com
Wed Mar 23 16:05:33 UTC 2016
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graham Hayes" <graham.hayes at hpe.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>
> On 23/03/2016 15:37, Steve Gordon wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Mike Perez" <thingee at gmail.com>
> >> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List"
> >> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> >>
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> I've been talking to a variety of projects about lack of install guides.
> >> This
> >> came from me not having a great experience with trying out projects in the
> >> big
> >> tent.
> >>
> >> Projects like Manila have proposed install docs [1], but they were
> >> rejected
> >> by the install docs team because it's not in defcore. One of Manila's
> >> goals
> >> of
> >> getting these docs accepted is to apply for the operators tag
> >> ops:docs:install-guide [2] so that it helps their maturity level in the
> >> project
> >> navigator [3].
> >>
> >> Adrian Otto expressed to me having the same issue for Magnum. I think it's
> >> funny that a project that gets keynote time at the OpenStack conference
> >> can't
> >> be in the install docs personally.
> >
> > Just two minor clarifications here:
> >
> > * Manila install docs are actively being worked on for inclusion in the
> > Mitaka version of the guide:
> > http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-manuals/tree/doc/install-guide/source/manila.rst
> >
> > * Magnum install docs were only very recently proposed here -
> > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/288580/ - nobody is saying they can't be
> > in the install guide assuming someone is willing to write/maintain them,
> > but until now it wasn't clear anyone was.
> >
> > I certainly think a better system for linking out-of-tree install docs for
> > big tent projects would be worth pursuing, but regardless of where it
> > lives someone still has to write/maintain that user-orientated content.
> > For those that have someone actively doing this on an ongoing basis they
> > already have a path to inclusion in the guide (or at least, it seems that
> > way based on the cases I am familiar with like those above).
> >
> > Are there examples of projects that have this user orientated install
> > documentation written but are actively being rejected from including it in
> > the install guide (in the Magnum case it has been pushed out to Newton as
> > it was a late submission, not rejected permanently)?
> >
>
> the linked review - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/213756/
Did you look at the link I provided above?:
http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-manuals/tree/doc/install-guide/source/manila.rst
This content is merged.
-Steve
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