[OpenStack-docs] hyphens for file names

Olena Logvinova ologvinova at mirantis.com
Tue Jul 19 13:10:22 UTC 2016


Then it makes sense. Thanks for clarification, Anne! I can also help with
the changes.

Best
Olena

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>
wrote:

> Sorry, I have to over rule. The hyphen convention is for search
> optimization and find ability. [2]
>
> I hear your consistency desire to match Python, but our outcome and
> overall goals are to write docs that are readable and findable. Let's say
> each document file is a package-like entity rather than a module. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
> 2. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/76329?hl=en
>
>
> On Jul 19, 2016, at 12:59 AM, Olena Logvinova <ologvinova at mirantis.com>
> wrote:
>
> +1 for changing the convention to underscore instead of hyphen.
>
> As far as I am concerned, visually it's easier to read and distinguish
> words in a filename with underscore, bc underscore has a bigger length than
> hyphen.
>
> Thanks
> Olena
>
> 19 июля 2016 г. 8:43 AM пользователь "Akihiro Motoki" <amotoki at gmail.com>
> написал:
>
>> I don't know the background of the current convention.
>> Is there any reason we prefer to hyphens over underscores?
>>
>> In Python we need to use underscores for such cases.
>> I think most developers familiar with python tend to use underscore as
>> delimiters.
>> IMHO it is better to use same convention on file naming in python and
>> docs.
>>
>> I hit some differences between openstack-manuals and python (or project
>> devref),
>> for example, RST title conventions, file naming.
>>
>> Akihiro
>>
>> 2016-07-19 5:30 GMT+09:00 Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>:
>> > I kept trying to put this off, but... I think I'll dive right in.
>> >
>> > I see we have style guidance to use hyphens for file names [1], but in
>> > the repo, there are still RST files with underscores in the names. I'm
>> > sure it's due to the original xml:id having underscores.
>> >
>> > I can take on the task of renaming, and I'd like to write a spec to
>> > make sure I don't miss anything: Cross reference links? Redirects?
>> > Tackle the work a guide at a time? Finding other contributors who hate
>> > inconsistency? Timing with the release? Making sure we really want
>> > this? :)
>> >
>> > Does a spec sound good? Or can you convince me this change isn't worth
>> > the effort?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Anne
>> >
>> > 1.
>> http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/docs-structure.html#file-naming-conventions
>> > --
>> > Anne Gentle
>> > www.justwriteclick.com
>> >
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