Open Stack

Hello all,

We've recently uploaded a video presenting the findings from the recent UX
research on information needs of operators. There will also be a session at
the Ops Summit next week in NY around how to move forward with potential
solutions.

https://youtu.be/dktorTIqU5s


Main findings:

* Overall, operators tend to follow a similar process for information
gathering:

1) Google or internal information search to isolate the problem

2) Reach out to an external source for alternate ideas – usually another
co-worker or an operator in the community (indirectly via IRC or mailing
list)

3) Comb through the code to check for more granular clues to pinpoint the
issue

* While participants acknowledged that total consolidation of all OpenStack
information was out of scope, a common theme among ideal solutions was
better organization of information.

Potential solutions (in no particular order):

   - Create a knowledge base of problems encountered and solutions proposed
   -
   - Utilize a template to ensure a common structure for capturing
   environment info
   -
   - Collect “best practices” for common tasks
   -
   - Optimize search for Google results
   -
   - (Smaller company) access to other problem-solving resources provided
   by (larger) companies
   - More detailed OpenStack logging
   -
   - Having a greater number and/or better quality of operator-focused docs
   -
   - The ability to add comments to specific documentation pages
   -
   - Providing reference architectures as a learning tool


Feel free to add your thoughts and comments!

--Danielle
IRC: uxdanielle
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