[docs][tc][infra] what to do with developer.openstack.org and api-site?

Ghanshyam Mann gmann at ghanshyammann.com
Tue Jul 16 12:29:42 UTC 2019


 ---- On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 23:28:33 +0900 Sean Mooney <smooney at redhat.com> wrote ----
 > On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 11:50 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: 
 > > Andreas Jaeger wrote: 
 > > > [...] 
 > > > I see the following options: 
 > > >  
 > > > 1) Retiring developer.openstack.org completely, this would mean we would 
 > > > host the api-guides and api-references on docs.openstack.org (perhaps 
 > > > with moving them into doc/source). If we go down this road, we need to 
 > > > discuss what this means (redirects) and what to do with the Api-Guide 
 > > > and the FirstApp guide. 
 > > >  
 > > > 2) Fully revitialize the repo and have it owned by an official team or 
 > > > SIG (this means reverting parts of https://review.opendev.org/485249/) 
 > > >  
 > > > 3) Retire the document "Writing your first OpenStack Application", and 
 > > > unretire api-site and have it owned by some official team/SIG. 
 > > >  
 > > > Any other options? What shall we do? 
 > >  
 > > Thanks Andreas for raising this. 
 > >  
 > > As an extra data point, my long-term plan was to have SDKs and CLIs  
 > > properly listed in the Software pages under SDKs[1], including  
 > > third-party ones in their own subtab, all driven from the  
 > > osf/openstack-map repository[2]. 
 > >  
 > > With that in mind, I think it would make sense to look into retiring  
 > > developer.openstack.org, 
 > i use https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/compute/ almost daily so unless 
 > we host the api ref somwhere else and put redirect in place i would hope we 
 > can keep this inplace. 

Yeah, this link is used very frequently by many developers as well as by users. Redirect
is something much needed for this site.

-gmann

 > if we move it under docs like the config stuff  
 > https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/configuration/config.html 
 > or somewhere else that is fine but i fine it very useful to be able 
 > to link the rendered api docs to people on irc that ask questions. 
 >  
 > i can obviosly point peple to github 
 > https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/api-ref/source/servers.inc 
 > but unlike the configs the api ref is much less readable with out rendering 
 > it with sphinx 
 >  
 > >  and move docs to docs.openstack.org. We could  
 > > also revive https://www.openstack.org/appdev/ and use it as the base  
 > > landing page to direct application-side people to the various pieces. 
 > >  
 > > [1] https://www.openstack.org/software/project-navigator/sdks 
 > > [2] https://opendev.org/osf/openstack-map/ 
 > >  
 >  
 >  
 > 




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