Because I am a Citrix employee, who has the day-to-day work to complete. There 
was a mail thread that only post 4.3 release, we can switch to RST.

Let me hunt down.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] 
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 11:05 PM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Animesh Chaturvedi; Hugo Trippaers; Dave Cahill; Yoshikazu Nojima
Subject: Re: [DOCS][DISCUSS] heads-up main docs repo refactor

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Radhika Puthiyetath 
<radhika.puthiyet...@citrix.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From Citrix-perspective, this is going to be effort intensive considering the 
> current head count for documentation.
>

Citrix has no standing in Apache CloudStack decisions. What is your individual 
opinion with your CloudStack hat on?


> For 4.3, we would like to continue with DocBook, as per our earlier consensus.
>

Link to said consensus?

I thought the consensus was that we would switch if we could do so in time. 
Sebastien seems to have pulled that off.


> I shall come back with a concrete plan soon after completing the 4.3 feature 
> documentation.
>
> Hope it works. Thanks for your patience.
>
> -Radhika
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sebgoa [mailto:run...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 8:50 PM
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Radhika Puthiyetath
> Cc: Animesh Chaturvedi; Hugo Trippaers; Dave Cahill; Yoshikazu Nojima
> Subject: [DOCS][DISCUSS] heads-up main docs repo refactor
>
> Hi,
>
> With the change of format for docs, I have started to refactor the main docs 
> repo "cloudstack-docs.git"
>
> The allocator,midonet,nicira,qig,vxlan and release notes guides have been 
> converted to .rst format.
>
> I am moving the docbook version of these guides into an /archive directory 
> for the time being.
>
> I will move my github repo that is used to build 
> http://cloudstack.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ to the main docs repo.
>
> The release notes now have their main repo and are up to date for 4.3 release.
>
> Now for the [DISCUSS] part:
>
> * The install and admin guides also have their own repo so we could remove 
> them from cloudstack-docs with a temporary move to the /archive dir .
>
> *My thought is to keep the cloudstack-docs repo for a "catch all" docs where 
> people can contribute "guides" that stand on their own, while the admin and 
> install repos are for the complete guides that we need to improve as complete 
> end-to-end docs.
>
> * @Radhika you are mostly the only one writing in docbook, when do you feel 
> comfortable switching to .rst ? I am willing to help clean up the period when 
> we have a few left over docbook commits that need to be merged in .rst. But 
> we do need to have date at which point we make docbook "obsolete". I have 
> already started going through your last 10 commits to make sure the content 
> is in the new format.
>
> thoughts,
>
> -Sebastien

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