[Openstack-docs] Glossary usage in manuals

Nermina Miller nmiller at mirantis.com
Tue Jan 14 21:34:08 UTC 2014


Awesome ideas! Let me know if you need any help. - Nermina

On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> wrote:

> I had some discussion with Diane and David about glossary usage and
> summarize my understanding and a proposal here.
> 
> We have a great glossary (see
> http://docs.openstack.org/glossary/content/glossary.html)  and only the
> Security Guide uses it to produce some entries:
> http://docs.openstack.org/security-guide/content/go01.html
> 
> We use in some places firstterm which is related to the glossary but
> does not use it. I propose that we should not use firstterm at all and
> use glossterm and include a glossary.
> 
> I'd also like to investigate a nice Rackspace maven plug-in that allows
> to use HTML popups for Glossary definitions.
> 
> We can add the glossary to each book we build - either the complete
> glossary or just the entries that use "glossterm" in the guide.
> 
> My proposal is to make better use of the great glossary we have and thus:
> * Deprecate firstterm usage, ask for glossterm
> * Add glossterm to some terms
> * Add the glossary to our manuals
> * Display as glossary only the entries that are in the documented
> * Evaluate the Rackspace glossary plug-in
> 
> I propose to start with the Install Guide and then add further guides.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Andreas
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