[OpenStack-docs] [openstack-dev] [docs][nova] config options help texts: reviews by technical writers?
Markus Zoeller
mzoeller at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jul 18 15:06:05 UTC 2016
On 18.07.2016 16:03, Matt Kassawara wrote:
> I think we can help. Do you want us to submit patches for config option
> descriptions that benefit from rewording? Also, you might want to post to
> the -docs list.
Awesome, thanks! If you could submit the changes, that would be great.
Let me skim through our modules first and filter out those which aren't
yet ready for your rewording. I'll post a list of modules in this thread
in the next days.
In case you don't already know, we have all config options at:
https://github.com/openstack/nova/tree/master/nova/conf
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Regards, Markus Zoeller (markus_z)
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Markus Zoeller <mzoeller at linux.vnet.ibm.com
>> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to ask the docs team if they see the possibility to have
>> reviews of the merged config options help texts Nova has updated in the
>> last months.
>>
>> Background: In Mitaka and Newton, Nova put a lot of effort in providing
>> valuable help texts for their config options. They are written from
>> developers for operators. My assumption is, that technical writers like
>> the docs team look at them differently. As these help texts get
>> extracted from the code and will be used directly in the "configuration
>> reference" manual, the text "by-passed" the writing expertise of the
>> docs team.
>>
>> Be aware, that this is still an ongoing effort in Nova (see [1],
>> especially "needs:fix_opt_description").
>>
>> References:
>> [1] http://45.55.105.55:8082/config-options.html
>>
>> --
>> Regards, Markus Zoeller (markus_z)
>>
>>
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