[OpenStack-docs] Separating User Guides

Lana Brindley openstack at lanabrindley.com
Thu May 14 02:27:54 UTC 2015


On 13 May 2015, at 8:24 am, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> wrote:

> On 05/13/2015 03:13 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> On 05/13/2015 02:50 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com
>>> <mailto:aj at suse.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>    On 05/12/2015 10:55 PM, Lana Brindley wrote:
>>> 
>>>        I’m fine with this approach. Is the issue happening in other
>>>        Guides as well?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    This is specific to RST.
>>> 
>>>    Separating the two guides this way allows us some nice cleanup, I
>>>    wonder why we didn't do it initially;). It's now easier to maintain,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> We did it initially to prove we could have conditional inclusions at the
>>> file level.
>>> 
>>> Now, what I'm not sure of is: have we proven Sphinx doesn't handle
>>> conditional inclusions as we'd expect? That certainly is a consideration
>>> for the next RST migrations.
>> 
>> We still can do it - using :only: admin_only or :only:user_only on parts
>> of a file. If we want to keep that option, we can leave the tags support
>> in and we do not merge this patch:
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/182444/
>> 
>> The sphinx extension is usefull for *file* level inclusion and with the
>> separation, we do not need it anymore,
> 
> Btw. we also have other means for exclusion now: Marking a file in common as :orphan: or use the exclude_pattern to exclude certain files.
> 
> So, my current understanding: the :only: might be interesting - and the firstapp document is using it, but the file level scope seems not to be needed.
> 
> I'm fine leaving both in for now and see whether we need and reconsider in a few months - or remove now and put it in again later if needed.
> 
> I've marked the single patch as WIP, the others can go in as is,

Great, thanks Andreas!

L


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