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On 3/13/2018 1:38 PM, Petr Kovar wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 12:54:06 -0600
> Jay S Bryant <jungleboyj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good overview.  Thank you!
>>
>> One additional goal I want to mention on the list, for awareness, is the
>> fact that we would like to eventually get some consistency to the pages
>> that the 'Contributor Guide' lands on for each of the projects.  Needs
>> to be a page that is friendly to new contributors, makes it easy to
>> learn about the project and is not overwhelming.
>>
>> What exactly that looks like isn't defined yet but I have talked to
>> Manila about this.  They were interested in working together on this.
>> Cinder and Manila will work together to get something consistent put
>> together and then we can work on spreading that to other projects once
>> we have agreement from the SIG that the approach is agreeable.
> This is a good cross-project goal, I think. We discussed a similar approach
> in the docs room wrt providing templates to project teams that they can
> use to design their landing pages for admin, user, configuration docs; that
> would also include the main index page for project docs.
>
> As for the project-specific contributor guides,
> https://docs.openstack.org/doc-contrib-guide/project-guides.html specifies
> that any contributor content should go to doc/source/contributor/. This will
> allow us to use templates to generate lists of links, similarly to what
> we do for other content areas.
>
> Cheers,
> pk
>
>
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Petr,

Good point.  I was trying to think of how to make a better landing page 
for new contributors and you may have hit on the answer.  RIght now when 
you click through from  here: https://www.openstack.org/community  You 
land at the top level Cinder documentation page which is incredibly 
overwhelming for a new person:  https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/

If the new contributor page instead lands here: 
https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/contributor/index.html It would 
give me a page to craft for new users looking for information to get 
started.

Thoughts on this approach?

Kendall and Mike ... Does the above approach make sense?

Jay