Agreed Carlos.  I've spent all day reading said emails and trying to
wrangle through this problem myself.  How to update the templates is here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/How+to+build+CloudStack#

but even getting that to work was an adventure.




On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Carlos Reategui <car...@reategui.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:48 AM, 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.
>
> Over the past couple weeks a good percentage of the emails to the list have
> been caused due to the wrong template URL in the installation docs.  I just
> had a look and they are still pointing to the old templates.
> Along the same lines the other problem most people have had is not knowing
> to upgrade the templates when upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2.  Just had a look
> at the docs and that is still not been updated.
>
> I would have thought this would have been a high priority to fix and would
> have been in that first update given the number of people running into
> these.
>
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> Can you point us to a guide on how to make doc fixes?  Is this in git?  I
> though I just saw a reference to SVN in another email in this thread.
>
>
> >
> > --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...
> >
>

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