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This sounds great. As I understand it Sean can set up a skeleton for us to
work on ops docs (and maybe other things later) with a minimum of
initiation energy. Count me in.

Chris

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:42 PM Sean McGinnis <sean.mcginnis at gmx.com>
wrote:

> Reviving this thread with a fresh start. See below for the original.
>
> To recap, the ops community is willing to take over some of the operator
> documentation that is no longer available due to the loss of documentation
> team
> resources. From discussions, there needs to be some official governance
> over
> this operator owned repo (or repos) so it is recommended that a sig be
> formed.
> The repos can be created in the meantime, but consideration needs to be
> taken
> about naming as by default, the repo name is what is reflected in the
> documentation publishing location.
>
> SIG Formation
> -------------
> There were a couple suggestions on naming and focus for this sig, but I
> would
> like to make a slightly different proposal. I would actually like to see a
> sig-operator group formed. We have repos for operator tools and other
> useful
> things and we have a mix of operators, vendors, and others that work
> together
> on things like the ops meetup. I think it would make sense to make this
> into an
> official SIG that could have a broader scope than just documentation.
>
> Docs Repos
> ----------
> Doug made a good suggestion that we may want these things published under
> something like docs.openstack.org/operations-guide. So based on this, I
> think
> for now at least we should create an opestack/operations-guide repo that
> will
> end up being owned by this SIG. I would expect most documentation
> generated or
> owned by this group would just be located somewhere under that repo, but
> if the
> need arises we can add additional repos.
>
> There are other ops repos out there right now. I would expect the
> ownership of
> those to move under this sig as well, but that is a seperate and less
> pressing
> concern at this point.
>
> Bug Tracking
> ------------
> There should be some way to track tasks and needs for this documentation
> and
> any other repos that are moved under this sig. Since it is the currently
> planned direction for all OpenStack projects (or at least there is a vocal
> desire for it to be) I think a Storyboard project should be created for
> this
> SIG's activities.
>
> Plan
> ----
> So to recap above, I would propose the following actions be taken:
>
> 1. Create sig-operators as a group to manage operator efforts at least
> related
>    to what needs to be done in repos.
> 2. Create an openstack/operations-guide repo to be the new home of the
>    operations documentation.
> 3. Create a new StoryBoard project to help track work in these repos
> x. Document all this.
> 9. Profit!
>
> I'm willing to work through the steps to get these things set up. Please
> give
> feedback if this proposed plan makes sense or if there is anything
> different
> that would be preferred.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 06:38:32PM -0700, Chris Morgan wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > In the Ops Community documentation working session today in Vancouver, we
> > made some really good progress (etherpad here:
> > https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-Ops-Community-Docs but not all of
> the
> > good stuff is yet written down).
> >
> > In short, we're going to course correct on maintaining the Operators
> Guide,
> > the HA Guide and Architecture Guide, not edit-in-place via the wiki and
> > instead try still maintaining them as code, but with a different, new set
> > of owners, possibly in a new Ops-focused repo. There was a strong
> consensus
> > that a) code workflow >> wiki workflow and that b) openstack core docs
> > tools are just fine.
> >
> > There is a lot still to be decided on how where and when, but we do have
> an
> > offer of a rewrite of the HA Guide, as long as the changes will be
> allowed
> > to actually land, so we expect to actually start showing some progress.
> >
> > At the end of the session, people wanted to know how to follow along as
> > various people work out how to do this... and so for now that place is
> this
> > very email thread. The idea is if the code for those documents goes to
> live
> > in a different repo, or if new contributors turn up, or if a new version
> we
> > will announce/discuss it here until such time as we have a better home
> for
> > this initiative.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > --
> > Chris Morgan <mihalis68 at gmail.com>
>
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>

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