> On May 18, 2017, at 7:17 PM, Anne Gentle <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
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> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 5:42 AM, Alexandra Settle <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>  
> 
> Before I send out my summary email to the greater mailing lists, I felt I 
> should reach out to you all first as the gate keepers of the documentation 
> project.
> 
>  
> 
> As we all know, we are rapidly losing key contributors and core reviewers. We 
> are not alone, this is happening across the board. It is making things 
> harder, but not impossible. Since our inception in 2010, we’ve been climbing 
> higher and higher trying to achieve the best documentation we could, and 
> uphold our high standards. This is something to be incredibly proud of.
> 
>  
> 
> However, we now need to take a step back and realise that the amount of work 
> we are attempting to maintain is now out of reach for the team size that we 
> have. At the moment we have 13 cores, of which none are full time 
> contributors or reviewers. This includes myself.
> 
>  
> 
> That being said! I have spent the last week at the summit talking to some of 
> our leaders, including Doug Hellmann (cc’d), Jonathan Bryce and Mike Perez 
> regarding the future of the project. Between myself and other community 
> members, we have been drafting plans and coming up with a new direction that 
> will hopefully be sustainable in the long-term.
> 
>  
> 
> I am interested to hear your thoughts. I want to make sure that everyone 
> feels that we’re headed in the right direction first and foremost. All of 
> these action items are documented in this WIP etherpad: 
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/doc-planning 
> <https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/doc-planning>
>  
> 
> Here’s a few action items I’d like to highlight:
> 
>  
> 
> 1.       We have a detailed outline in the above etherpad 
> <https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/doc-planning> on the action items going 
> forward with the Installation Guide.
> 
> a.       Send email to the openstack-dev mailing list requesting input with 
> regards to the project-specific installation guide move:
> 
>                                                                 i.      
> Request solutions from the remaining teams that are pushing back against 
> in-tree content.
> 
>                                                                ii.      Agree 
> upon long-term maintenance solution for Installation Guide.
> 
> 2.       In the Administration and Operations Guide session 
> <https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/admin-ops-guides> we asked operators what 
> they wanted and how they wanted to go forward. Through a vote in the room, 
> operators agreed that they would like to see the Operations Guide moved out 
> of the openstack-manuals repo, and placed into the OpenStack wiki 
> <http://wiki.openstack.org/> for their own maintenance. We lose ownership, 
> but we also empower the operators to maintain their own guide.
> 
> 
> Sounds fine, though who will do the migration? I'd also make sure it's not 
> only the people in the room who traveled that get a vote.

What’s driving the request to use the wiki, instead of continuing to maintain 
the guide in gerrit?

>  
> 
> 3.       Work on improving the config ref auto-generation files using sphinx 
> extensions:
> 
> a.       Move away from using the flagmapping files (reduce manual labour)
> 
> b.       See: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/config-ref-spec 
> <https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/config-ref-spec>
> Yay. 
> 
> 4.       Ensure the CLI ref is documenting the unified client (move to the 
> OSC repo).
> 
> Does this mean stop creating the nova CLI ref and so on? Sounds good to me. 
> 
> 5.       Implement the archiving solution for the Pike release.
> 
> 
> Do we have someone assigned now?
>  
> 
> 6.       After the Pike release, include a note on the Architecture Guide and 
> cease edits after that point in time.
> 
> Can this also go to the wiki or no? Not sure why this one stays for Pike? 
> 
> 7.       After a period of time, any documents that are not being maintained, 
> or groups have not taken ownership (Examples: Security, HA, and Networking 
> Guides), they will be moved out of the openstack-manuals repo and onto the 
> Legacy list.
> 
>  
> 
> These action items will free up the documentation team to become gate keepers 
> and reviewers of documentation. Our key focus as a team will be on the 
> tooling for the docs.openstack.org <http://docs.openstack.org/> site 
> (including the API docs).
> 
>  
> 
> Sounds like the natural next step.
>  
> 
> I’m really interested to hear everyone’s thoughts going forward – this is not 
> set in stone. We need to change our strategy, and now is the time. If you’d 
> rather reach out and discuss this personally,asettle on IRC is always the 
> best place to find me.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Alex
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