What's an acceptable/expected timeframe for rolling out the published fixes once a patch has made it's way in? Is that something that can be automated after a successful Jenkins run?
Travis On Oct 10, 2013, at 1:48 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > That is how it has been done previously - but we recently moved docs > to their own repo to separate the software lifecycle from the docs > lifecycle, and we have already had at least one update pushed to the > docs post-release. The goal is to try and keep this up, and I hope to > publish another set of updates tomorrow or over the weekend. > > Bad docs make even the best software unusable IMO. That said, we could > use more eyeballs - at least identify the problems for us. Bonus > points for fixes. > > --David > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Carlos Reategui <create...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It seems like the only way that docs ( >> http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/index.html) are updated is when a >> release is done. Is it not possible to have these updated otherwise? >> Waiting for the next patch release of the software so that the docs get >> updated is causing problems with folks not being able to get CloudStack >> installed properly and therefore gives them a bad impression of the >> maturity of CloudStack. >> >> It makes no sense to me why there are multiple versions of documents for >> each of the point releases (currently there is 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.1.0, >> 4.1.1 and 4.0.2 docs) when the feature set has not changed within each of >> these. I understand that the docs are built as part of the build and >> release process but why does that have to impact the rate at which the >> primary doc site is updated. Can't the patch releases simply update the >> release notes? Personally I think there should be a single 4.x version of >> the docs (I would be ok with a 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 versions too if major >> features are going to be added to them). Maybe the doc site should have >> wiki like capabilities so that it can be more easily maintained. >> >> ok, I am done ranting...
