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Hi all,

This is a continued discussion from the last team meeting. For recap, 'labels' is a property in baymodel and is used by users to input additional key-pair pairs to configure the bay. In the last team meeting, we discussed what is the best way to document 'labels'. In general, I heard three options:

1.       Place the documentation in Magnum CLI as help text (as Wangqun proposed [1][2]).

2.       Place the documentation in Magnum server and expose them via the REST API. Then, have the CLI to load help text of individual properties from Magnum server.

3.       Place the documentation in a documentation server (like developer.openstack.org/...), and add the doc link to the CLI help text.
For option #1, I think an advantage is that it is close to end-users, thus providing a better user experience. In contrast, Tom Cammann pointed out a disadvantage that the CLI help text might be easier to become out of date. For option #2, it should work but incurs a lot of extra work. For option #3, the disadvantage is the user experience (since user need to click the link to see the documents) but it makes us easier to maintain. I am thinking if it is possible to have a combination of #1 and #3. Thoughts?

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/307631/
[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/307642/

Best regards,
Hongbin
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