[Openstack-docs] Links to another manual

Lorin Hochstein lorin at nimbisservices.com
Fri Jul 19 20:50:12 UTC 2013


My personal opinion is that it's OK to use them as long as you try to build
the doc yourself to verify that nothing is broken. Reviewers should also
verify that docs build until we get the proper gating in place.

Lorin


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Nermina Miller <nerminamiller at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks, Lorin! Is it better not to use the links until support is
> available? - n
>
>
> On Friday, July 19, 2013, Lorin Hochstein wrote:
>
>> Nermina:
>>
>> It's not you, it's us. ;)
>>
>> We currently do not have a gate check to verify links are valid. We're
>> working on having the gate check do full doc builds so that that Gerrit
>> won't allow people to commit changes that can break the docs.
>>
>> I believe linkend is the correct way to do cross-referencing right now,
>> and olink support is in the works for the future.
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> Lorin
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Nermina Miller <nerminamiller at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry to jump in on this discussion so late down the thread (on vacation
>>> with limited wifi) but I was the one who made the link in that particular
>>> commit. Should I continue I using links and, if so, what's the best way to
>>> do it without causing trouble? Thanks! - Nermina
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, July 19, 2013, Lorin Hochstein wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:01 PM, David Cramer <
>>>> david.cramer at rackspace.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 07/18/2013 05:43 PM, Denis Bradford wrote:
>>>>> > While you're brainstorming, I'm curious why we don't use olinks,
>>>>> since
>>>>> > it's designed to handle cross-document references like this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Funny you should mention that :-) It's next on my list and I've been
>>>>> trying to get to it all summer, but one thing or another keeps coming
>>>>> up. It's still a high priority for me though.
>>>>>
>>>>> As I understand it, olinks would not have changed anything in this case
>>>>> however. The document would have passed the gate job (which effectively
>>>>> would no longer check links at all), but still failed in the maven
>>>>> plugin since the target would be missing.
>>>>>
>>>>> What happened here is the system worked and prevented a mistake by
>>>>> alerting us to a real problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Just to be clear... the system *didn't* work here: docs were committed
>>>> to master that broke the build, and that should never happen. We really
>>>> need a maven job that gate on master to prevent this in the future.
>>>>
>>>> Lorin
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Lorin Hochstein
>>>> Lead Architect - Cloud Services
>>>> Nimbis Services, Inc.
>>>> www.nimbisservices.com
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Lorin Hochstein
>> Lead Architect - Cloud Services
>> Nimbis Services, Inc.
>> www.nimbisservices.com
>>
>


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Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com
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