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All docs are migrated off of WADL now, but not all are publishing. Please
see https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/Migrate#API_Reference_Plan
and my post that high-fived with Sean's just minutes ago for the latest
status.

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-May/094478.html

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> Part of the cross project session track -
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-api-docs-rst
>
> The first half of the session was spent going over the background issues
> and the work so far. The TL;DR
>
> * We need to get off WADL, it's a dead spec, and it's use is inhibiting
> contributions
> * We *need* to get up to date docs to our users, ASAP. The API
> References are way out of data and inaccurate in most places (and
> missing entirely for 50% of our projects with REST APIs)
> * Swagger (OpenAPI) was looked at, but there are hard problems in our
> legacy APIs that aren't possible to solve within the spec at hand
> * Nova team started building some semistructured tooling based on RST /
> Sphinx to move forward.
>
> We then looked at the sphinx extension work in the Nova api-ref tree.
>
> Question: why not https://pythonhosted.org/sphinxcontrib-httpdomain/?
> Answer: we have some specific needs on formating, headers where it
> doesn't fit (see etherpad for full answer).
>
> Next Steps:
>
> * Nova team is doing a doc sprint to try to get through verification of
> the content we've got
> * Once that is done (under control) sdague to work on splitting out
> sphinx extension into a dedicated project to make it easy for others to
> consume / contribute
> * Cinder, Ironic, and Keystone ready to get started on similar conversion
>
> --
> Sean Dague
> http://dague.net
>
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