[Openstack-docs] Clearly marking trunk/ as the unstable version

Gauvain Pocentek gauvain.pocentek at objectif-libre.com
Sat Jun 21 19:32:01 UTC 2014


Le 2014-06-20 14:37, Anne Gentle a écrit :
> Tom's patch is fine, let's see if that causes any rage. 
> 
> How about this: for the install guide we just don't publish to 
> /trunk. 
> 
> I also like the django header but when I suggested using our existing
> DRAFT watermark in the 1191447 but someone (can't recall who) said it
> wouldn't be enough. 
> 
> The /trunk content was meant to be much less findable but over the
> years it has become sought. It's probably time to delete it entirely
> now that we have docs-draft links always available.
> What do you think?

Could we imagine having a "hidden" build somewhere? It's nice to have 
the trunk available to check if bugs reported on icehouse have been 
fixed in the trunk.

If it's too complicated or even not possible, then I think it's better 
to drop trunk/.

Thanks,
Gauvain

> Anne
> 
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Gauvain Pocentek
> <gauvain.pocentek at objectif-libre.com> wrote:
> 
>> Le 2014-06-20 09:18, Tom Fifield a écrit :
>> 
>>> On 20/06/14 15:13, Gauvain Pocentek wrote:
>>> 
>>>> We've received several bug reports about the auth_strategy nova 
>>>> option
>>>> missing from our install procedure these last few days. These bugs 
>>>> are
>>>> reported against the trunk doc, by people installing icehouse. The 
>>>> doc
>>>> is in fact correct, both in trunk (the default for this option in 
>>>> juno
>>>> has changed and we don't need to set it anymore), and in the 
>>>> icehouse
>>>> branch (where the option is set up in the procedure).
>>>> 
>>>> Would it be possible to mark the pages in the trunk/ subdirectory 
>>>> of
>>>> docs.o.org [1] as "in progress" or "unstable", or anything that 
>>>> would
>>>> explicitly tell the user that he might not be reading the correct 
>>>> page?
>>>> We already have "juno" in the install-guide and config-ref titles, 
>>>> but I
>>>> don't think it's visible enough.
>>> 
>>> This is indeed a problem.
>>> 
>>> I find it's quite similar to our Critical bug "Clearly mark outdated
>>> doc pages" https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1191447 
>>> [2]
>>> 
>>> I've proposed a patch @ https://review.openstack.org/#/c/101428/ [3] 
>>> that
>>> will make it more obvious that trunk is juno, but I don't think it
>>> solves the problem.
>> 
>> Users following the guide will very soon realize that this is not 
>> what they want with this patch. IMO that's a good thing. With the 
>> current trunk/, I'm quite sure that people end up thinking "the doc is 
>> not good, I can't get this thing to work". We really don't want them 
>> to think that :)
>> 
>> When starting this thread I had the django documentation website in 
>> head. They have a relatively visible warning on the top of dev version 
>> pages: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ [4] . If Tom's patch is 
>> not enough, we could look into implementing a similar feature.
>> 
>> Gauvain
>> 
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> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://docs.o.org
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1191447
> [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/101428/
> [4] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/
> [5] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-docs



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