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I think if we're going to have that go to the development contributors
section (which makes sense) maybe we should also have ways of getting to
the deployment and admin docs as well?

Amy (spotz)

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Jay S Bryant <jungleboyj at gmail.com> wrote:

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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
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