Open Stack

On 31/01/13 08:01, Anne Gentle wrote:
> Hi all -
> Keeping to the topical nature of our lists, I'm going to post these to
> the openstack-docs list from now on. Forward to your friends and neighbors!
>
>
> 2. High priority doc work:
> Tom has done a great job of tagging and triaging DocImpact items. I'd
> like to start focusing on doc bugs where the Title starts with grizzly
> now that we are nearing g-3 deadlines. As you may know, docs never
> really keep up with code, but I'd like to make it a high priority.

63 days to go before release, with 63 grizzly-targeted bugs ... we can
do this :)

> Here are some general "features" going into Grizzly's Compute that
> people will want docs for:
> -Cells (Lorin has a WIP draft started)
> -Database independence for Compute (get rid if nova-manage commands)
> -Extension for retrieving secure password for guest servers
> -Better block storage interface coverage
> -Improvements to boot-from-volume (some of these are documented? She
> says hopefully.)
> -Bare metal provisioning (Do any docs exist?)
> -Any new filters (I don't think AggregateMultiTenancyIsolation scheduler
> filter is documented?)
> 
> 3. Doc work going on that I know of:
> Our intern Laura Alves has been doing a great job with API doc bugs. And
> by great, I mean, fantastic.

+1000000

> I've also seen results from the OpenStack documentation jam at LCA, the
> Australian Linux Conf. [2] Tom has logged these four bugs to track their
> impressions. Since you only get to look at something for the first time
> once, these are valuable items I'd like to tackle:
> 1110135 "getting started" link on openstack.org <http://openstack.org>
> is confusing for new users
> 1110136 installing openstack walkthrough doesn't let you know where to go
> 1110137 "running openstack" guide is exhausting to the point of being
> past useful
> 1110146 docs.openstack.org <http://docs.openstack.org> "API" should be
> "using openstack"

Indeed, it was a great event. Well organised by Tim from Redhat, and we
even hadlegends like John Dickinson and Florian Haas drop by. I logged
these bugs in a hurry, so feel free to ask for clarification and nut
them out :)

I believe after I left (had a plane to catch) they also wandered through
the Operations Manual Outline on etherpad.