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==== Distribution List ====
 
==== Distribution List ====
* OpenStack Docs Mailing List <Openstack-docs@lists.openstack.org>
 
 
* OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>
 
* OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>
 
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You can see older newsletters here: [[Documentation/WhatsUpDoc_Archive]]
 
You can see older newsletters here: [[Documentation/WhatsUpDoc_Archive]]
  
= 10 March 2017 =
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= 7 April 2017 =
  
Team team team team team,
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Team,
 
 
It's been a crazy few weeks since the PTG ramping up our goals for Pike! Big thanks to everyone who has really hit the ground running with our new set of objectives.
 
 
 
This week I have been helping out Ianeta with the High Availability Guide ToC plan, (which you can review here: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/440890/) and Rob Clark with the Security Guide plan (https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/sec-guide-pike). I have also been working alongside Brian and the nova team to unblock ourselves from a particularly nasty, critical, bug affecting the Install Guide. For more information: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1663485
 
  
Big thanks to Darren Chan who has been doing an awesome job for the last two weeks in keeping our bug list under control. We are down to an amazing 108 bugs in queue.
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This week I have still been working on drafting a governance tag for our guides called "docs:follows-policy". I have been working with Doug Hellmann (dhellmann) in the last week to change to draft dramatically, so it would be good for docs people to review again. We are trying to make this a more broad tag now, so it can be applied for other guides too. To review: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/445536/ I am also in the process of documenting guidelines in our Contribution Guide - which would also benefit from doc reviews:  https://review.openstack.org/#/c/453642/
  
Next week, we have Ianeta who will be looking after the bug triage liaison role!
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Would like to call out and thank John Davidge for his awesome work with the Networking Guide and neutron-related patches. He's been providing valuable guidance, and reviews, and it has been greatly appreciated by myself and the team.
  
If you're sitting there thinking "bugs are for me, I really love triaging bugs!" well, you're in luck! We have a few spots open for the rest of the cycle: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/SpecialityTeams#Bug_Triage_Team
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Lana Brindley has done an awesome job for the last two weeks in keeping our bug list under control. We are down to an amazing 102 bugs in queue, and 82 bugs closed this cycle already!
 
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Next week, I will be looking after the bug triage liaison role!
== Progress towards Pike ==
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If you're sitting there thinking "bugs are for me, I really love triaging bugs!" well, you're in luck! We have one spot open for the rest of the cycle (14 Aug - 28 Aug): https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/SpecialityTeams#Bug_Triage_Team
 
* https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/newyear?p0=24&msg=Pike+release&ud=1&font=slab
 
* Bugs closed in Pike: 32! You guys rock :)
 
  
 
== The Road to the Summit in Boston ==
 
== The Road to the Summit in Boston ==
 
The summit schedule has been announced!
 
* https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/summit-schedule/#day=2017-05-08
 
 
I will be representing the docs team at the summit for the new 'Project Update' session. For more information: https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/summit-schedule/global-search?t=Project+Update+-+Documentation
 
  
Let me know if you had any doc talks accepted!
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Keep an eye out for the docs and I18n have a project onboarding room at the summit. Melvin Hillsman (mrhillsman) of the User Committee submitted a forum topic for the Ops Guide to get operator feedback.
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David Flanders from the Foundation has also proposed a forum topic for developer.openstack.org (which currently houses our API, SDK, and other dev stuff). We'll be discussing major changes to that and would like to see some feedback from people here. Any questions on that, shoot it my way. My main objective for this forum topic is to reduce our current technical debt that lives on this site.
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For more information on forum topics: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum
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Schedule has been released: https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/summit-schedul
  
 
== Speciality Team Reports ==
 
== Speciality Team Reports ==
  
* API - Anne Gentle: One prominent change is that the Block Storage API v2 is now exactly replicated with v3 and so is now marked Deprecated. The list of all OpenStack APIs is now also here: https://developer.openstack.org/#api and you can see them based on support level here: https://developer.openstack.org/api-guide/quick-start/
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* API - Anne Gentle: API versioning in relation to release versioning is currently manually compiled for the 40-ish API services, so ideas on how to automate and surface that info welcomed. More info: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-March/114690.html
* Configuration Reference and CLI Reference - Tomoyuki Kato: CLI Reference: NIL this week. Some bugs for the Config Ref and potential bug in the tooling.
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* Configuration Reference and CLI Reference - Tomoyuki Kato: N/A
* High Availability Guide - Ianeta Hutchinson: So we have this patch https://review.openstack.org/#/c/440890/13 to establish the new ToC for HA Guide. We are trying to move all content that is relevant in the current guide over to the new ToC. From there, we will be filing bugs to start collaboration with the OSIC DevOps team who have signed up to adopt-a-guide and will be helping to provide content as SME's.
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* High Availability Guide - Ianeta Hutchinson: We are continuing to collaborate with OS DevOps team. See the tag ha-guide-draft for bugs opened to fill content for the new guide.
* Hypervisor Tuning Guide - Blair Bethwaite: The Scientific-WG is considering proposing a hypervisor tuning + guide session for the Boston Forum though, so hopefully if that goes ahead it will create some renewed interest.
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* Hypervisor Tuning Guide - Blair Bethwaite: N/A
* Installation guides - Lana Brindley: Waiting to sort out the last couple of bugs before we branch, hopefully next week
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* Installation guides - Lana Brindley: We have now branched, so please remember to backport if you have edits to the Ocata guide now. Big thanks to all the testers who have been working hard over the past month or two (that Nova cells bug was *tough*!), and to Brian and Mariia for doing the heavy lifting. Noticed a bunch links to draft versions of the guide in Newton/Ocata branches, backports for that have been merged, and the Contributor Guide updated so we don't miss it in the future (https://docs.openstack.org/contributor guide/release/taskdetail.html#update-links-in-all-books).
* Networking Guide - John Davidge: Huge number of patches this week on the RFC 5737 fix[1] - thanks to caoyuan! Continued progress on replacing neutronclient commands with OSC versions. Thank you to all contributors. A patch[2] changing a documented use of ’tenant’ to ‘project’ sparked a discussion in the neutron team about the mixture of terminology in neutron, with the conclusion that all remaining references to ’tenant’ in our config files and elsewhere are to be replaced with ‘project’ as soon as possible. Some of these will require deprecation cycles. Impact on the networking guide should be minimal. [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1656378 [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/43816
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* Networking Guide - John Davidge: More patches landed in the last couple of weeks dealing with the move to OSC, and more are still in flight. Progress also continues on RFC 5737 compliance. Thanks to all contributors for their work.
* Operations and Architecture Design guides - Darren Chan: A patch to move the draft Arch Guide to docs.o.o has merged. The previous guide has been moved to a "to archive" directory until the archiving process is ready. The Arch Guide working group met this week to rearchitect and scope the design content. We're currently focussed on the storage content.
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* Operations and Architecture Design guides - Darren Chan: Arch Guide: edited architecture considerations content and cleaned up the index page structure which was applied across OS manuals. Some ops-related content was moved to the Ops Guide. Our current focus is improving the storage design content and networking design content.
* Security Guide - Nathaniel Dillon: Rob Clark (PTL) and Alex are in the process of planning the ins and out of the overhaul of the guide. We're talking about dramatically reducing the scope, and introducing new, maintainable, content. Rob ( hyakuhei ) is also looking at getting a sprint in Austin at some point to get the security team all together and pump out some content. We also have the OSIC Security team pumping out some of the main, non-wishlist, bugs at preset
 
 
* Training Guides - Matjaz Pancur: N/A
 
* Training Guides - Matjaz Pancur: N/A
* Training labs - Pranav Salunke, Roger Luethi: We have pushed the current state of the Ocata training-labs changeset in case others find it useful. The scripts follow the install-guide and
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* Training labs - Roger Luethi: We released the Ocata version of training-labs this week.
* https://review.openstack.org/#/c/438328/. The resulting cluster cannot launch instances because it fails to find a host (just like others following the install-guide have reported).
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* User guides - Joseph Robinson: For the user guides - the spec on migrating the Admin Guide content this week moved closer to merging. I started preparing the work items for action on the User Guides tasks wiki page.
* User guides - Joseph Robinson: For the User and Admin Guides, I've been looping through the bug list - there are SDK bugs and the issue of moving the python SDK examples, which was discussed back in Newton. There are also two telemetry bugs, which I need to contact the liaisons for. The only other point, is reviewing the Admin Guide migration spec: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/439122/
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* Theme and Tools - Brian Moss: Anne has a spec up for theme consolidation, please check it out: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/454346/, Brian has fixed up the sitemap tool tests, reviews welcome: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/453976/. 41 open bugs, 13 closed in Pike
  
 
== Doc team meeting ==
 
== Doc team meeting ==
 
   
 
   
Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 23 March at 2100 UTC in #openstack-meeting-alt.
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Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 20 April at 2100 UTC in #openstack-meeting-alt.
 
For more meeting details, including minutes and the agenda: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/DocTeamMeeting
 
For more meeting details, including minutes and the agenda: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/DocTeamMeeting
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The meeting chair will be me!
  
I am unavailable to be the meeting chair this week :( is someone able to host? Ping or email if you are able to help out!
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Big thanks to Joseph for stepping up in the last 2 meetings and hosting in my absence! Really appreciated it :)
  
 
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Have a great weekend!
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Have a great week :)
 
   
 
   
 
Alex
 
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= 24 February 2017 =
 
 
Team team team team team,
 
 
Welcome to my second edition of What's up, Doc!
 
 
We have had an extremely busy week in Atlanta for the PTG. We had a really enthusiastic attendance and I am truly impressed by how much we have managed to get done. This newsletter will be a short one and focus on a small PTG update!
 
 
Our bug triager for the first 2 weeks of Pike is Darren Chan. Looking for more people to sign up and help out: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/SpecialityTeams#Bug_Triage_Team 
 
 
== Progress towards Pike ==
 
 
Thanks to our amazing release managers, Maria, Brian and Lana for all their amazing hard work on the Ocata release. Big thanks to Anne for stepping in at the last minute!
 
 
* 44 days to go! https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/newyear?p0=24&msg=Pike+release&ud=1&font=slab
 
 
== The Road to the Summit in Boston ==
 
 
Voting is now open for topics. You can find the list of topics here: https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/vote-for-speakers#/
 
I was able to find some documentation related topics. If anyone has any more topics I am unaware of, please reply to this email thread and share your talks!
 
 
Please vote for your fellow documenter below:
 
 
1. https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/vote-for-speakers#/17888
 
2. https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/vote-for-speakers#/18078
 
3. https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/vote-for-speakers#/17711
 
 
Event info is available here: http://www.openstack.org/ptg 
 
Purchase tickets here: https://pikeptg.eventbrite.com/ 
 
Tickets for the Boston summit: https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/
 
 
== PTG Update ==
 
 
We had a very successful PTG! Thanks to all those that were able to attend. Thanks to Ian Choi and the I18n team for being wonderful collaborators. We were able to get a lot done in our horizontal sessions. For anyone that is interested, here's our etherpad with all the notes from the sessions: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/docs-i18n-ptg-pike
 
Here are a few of the exciting things to look out for in Pike:
 
 
1.      High Availability Guide improvements
 
a.      Adam Spiers and Ianeta Hutchinson will be leading the charge on the HA guide with a massive restructure and up-to-date new content.
 
2.      Reno release notes for OpenStack manuals
 
a.      Adam Spiers has been working alongside John Davidge and the Infra team to work on implementing the reno release notes process for documentation. Including looking at implementing new reno templates to work specifically for documentation!
 
3.      Networking Guide improvements and more collaboration with the neutron team.
 
a.      John Davidge has been working with the neutron team to develop the best way to ensure information flows into the guide. Discussions around the use of the DocImpact tag were successful.
 
4.      Administrator Guide changes! Keep your eye out for exciting developments.
 
a.      Ildiko Vancsa and Joseph Robinson will be working together to come up with a new specification to implement in Queens for our Administration Guide. Development teams have been enthusiastic about implementing the project-install-guide and are looking for similar structures with the Admin Guide. Stay tuned for more news here!
 
 
I had the opportunity to report back to meeting attendees yesterday afternoon, if anyone would like to know more, here are the meeting minutes: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/docteam/2017/docteam.2017-02-23-20.59.log.txt 
 
 
== Doc team meeting ==
 
 
Our next meeting will be on Thursday 9 March at 2100 UTC in #openstack-meeting-alt.
 
 
Meeting chair will be me (Alexandra Settle - asettle)! \o/
 
 
For more meeting details, including minutes and the agenda: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/DocTeamMeeting
 
 
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Have a great weekend!
 
 
Alex
 
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= 10 February 2017 =
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= 27 March 2017 =
  
 
Team team team team team,
 
Team team team team team,
  
Welcome to my first edition of What's up, Doc!
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Well the last month has just FLOWN by since the PTG. We've got plenty going on in the docs team...
  
Firstly, I just want to thank everyone who supported me when I announced I would like to run for manuals PTL. Although I ran the election uncontested (like the beginning of all good dictatorships), it was wonderful to receive messages of support from everyone. I’ve slowly been ramping up and getting used to the mass influx of emails. Turns out I’m really good at sending out emails with the incorrect time and/or date. Big thanks to Andreas for informing me the next 9th of January will be in 2020.
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This week I have been helping out the security team with the Security Guide. We've been working on some cursory edits, and removal of content. A few patches have already made it through - thanks to the OSIC security team for tackling some of the outstanding bugs. There'll be more edits coming from me in the next few weeks. To see our planning: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/sec-guide-pike
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I am also in the process of drafting a governance tag for our install guides. Would be great for everyone to review and understand what the process will involve: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/445536/
  
Without further ado, let's get down to business! We have a very short window now between Ocata and the start of Pike, and we still have quite a number of things left to achieve.
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Shoutout and big thanks to Brian Moss and the nova team who worked together tirelessly to document Nova v2 Cells and Placement API - which was a massive blocker for our Installation Guide.
- If anyone has time to dedicate to Install Guide testing - please sign up (links below). Thanks to those who have already volunteered to help Lana out!
 
- As per my email yesterday, I'd love to see some people out there smashing bugs! (links also below, and more info in the meeting minutes from yesterday).
 
  
== Progress towards Ocata ==
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Also, thank you to our Ocata release managers, Maria Zlatkova and Brian Moss for cutting the branch! Pike is well and truly underway now.
  
* 12 days to go!
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Ianeta Hutchinson has done an awesome job for the last two weeks in keeping our bug list under control. We are down to an amazing 104 bugs in queue, and 59 bugs closed this cycle already!
* Closed 256 bugs so far. We have 128 open bugs left: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bugs
 
* Release tasks are being tracked here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/OcataDeliverables
 
* Install Guide testing is being tracked here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/OcataDocTesting
 
  
== The Road to PTG in Atlanta ==
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Next week, we have Lana who will be looking after the bug triage liaison role!
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If you're sitting there thinking "bugs are for me, I really love triaging bugs!" well, you're in luck! We have a few spots open for the rest of the cycle: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/SpecialityTeams#Bug_Triage_Team
  
Docs is a horizontal project, so our sessions will run across the Monday and Tuesday of the event. We will be combining the docs event with i18n, so translators and docs people will all be in the room together. Everyone welcome!
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== The Road to the Summit in Boston ==
Conversation topics for Docs and i18n here: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/docs-i18n-ptg-pike
 
  
Event info is available here: http://www.openstack.org/ptg
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* Schedule has been released: https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/summit-schedule/
Purchase tickets here: https://pikeptg.eventbrite.com/  
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* Docs and I18n have a project onboarding room at the summit, keep an eye out on the dev ML for more information. Kendall will inform us when the time comes. Anyone around to help me with that? http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-March/114149.html
Tickets for the Boston summit: https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/
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* Docs project update will be delivered by me (asettle) on Mon 8 , 3:40pm-4:20pm. https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/summit-schedule/global-search?t=Alexandra+Settle
 
 
The CFP is now closed.
 
  
 
== Speciality Team Reports ==
 
== Speciality Team Reports ==
  
API - Anne Gentle: The trove API docs are incomplete after migration, and a user reported the bug to the ML. Anne to log the missing clustering API info. Alex and Anne to meet with the app dev community manager at the Foundation to talk about goals for developer.openstack.org. The NFV Orchestration (tacker) team landed their API ref this week.
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* API - Anne Gentle: There's still a lot of discussion on https://review.openstack.org/#/c/421846/ which is about API change guidelines. Take a look and join in on the review. Also on the openstack-dev list, there's a thread about the future of the app catalog, which is relevant to the app developer audience so I include it here: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack dev/2017-March/113362.html Also related to the app dev audience is the wrapping up of the App Ecosystem working group: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2017-March/001825.html
Configuration Reference and CLI Reference - Tomoyuki Kato: CLI Reference: Updated some CLI references. Added aodhclient. Config Reference: Start working on Ocata updates.
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* Configuration Reference and CLI Reference - Tomoyuki Kato: N/A
High Availability Guide - Ianeta Hutchinson: Sent a message to the ML looking for people interested in helping out on the HA guide for Pike. Planning for the PTG as I can’t attend.
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* High Availability Guide - Ianeta Hutchinson: At the Atlanta PTG, the documentation team outlined a new table of contents that is now upstream as a draft here: https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/tree/master/doc/ha-guide-draft. A blocker to progress in the past had been a lack of SME’s for the topic of high availability but that is no longer the case \o/. The OSIC DevOps team has an “adopt-a-guide” project in which they are collaborating with the OpenStack docs community and OSIC Docs team to apply the new ToC and validate all content for the guide. The progress of this collaboration is being tracked here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hw4axU2IbLlsjKpz9_EGlKQt0S6siViik7ETjNg_MgI/edit?usp=sharing> We are calling for more contributors both as SME's and tech writers. Ping iphutch if interested!
Hypervisor Tuning Guide - Blair Bethwaite: N/A
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* Hypervisor Tuning Guide - Blair Bethwaite: N/A
Installation guides - Lana Brindley: Landing page review: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/425821/12. Install guide testing is well underway.
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* Installation guides - Lana Brindley: Cells bug is closer to being fixed, and we are closer to a complete test install (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/NewtonDocTesting look at all that green!). We're planning to branch Ocata by the end of this week.
Networking Guide - John Davidge: Working on organising a Networking Guide working group with the neutron team at the PTG. Also been smashing bugs.
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* Networking Guide - John Davidge: N/A
Operations and Architecture Design guides - Darren Chan: Darren and Ben are working on an action plan for the Arch Guide to be worked on during Pike to get the current draft guide published.
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* Operations and Architecture Design guides - Darren Chan: Arch Design Guide: Minor IA and general cleanup of the storage, compute, and networking sections in the Design chapter. Currently updating gaps in storage design content. Ops Guide: Removed cloud architecture content (migrated to the Arch Design Guide).
Security Guide - Nathaniel Dillon: Moved the sec-guide bugs to the sec team Launchpad. Sec and doc team to coordinate and come up with action plan for the future of the sec guide at the PTG.
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* Security Guide - Nathaniel Dillon: Edits from Alex going through, and patches from the OSIC DevOps team. See above for more info.
Training Guides - Matjaz Pancur: N/A
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* Training Guides - Matjaz Pancur: For Training guides related topics: a new brand for activities around OpenStack Upstream University/Training. It is now known as OpenStack Upstream Institute (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_Upstream_Institute)
Training labs - Pranav Salunke, Roger Luethi: Training-labs has a rough, but working Ocata patch. Issues we found are noted on the Etherpad as you requested. We should be able to release within a week or two after Ocata is official.
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* Training labs - Roger Luethi: We are currently testing our automated version of the Ocata install-guide. We had a problem with Ubuntu's new ISO image (16.04.2 LTS) which is now resolved.
User guides - Joseph Robinson: The legacy command changes have gone through well this release, and the next steps is to check with the nova, neutron, cinder, and glance teams on the status of some specific project commands
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* User guides - Joseph Robinson: Several other Legacy commands were converted to OS commands this week. Reviewed the Admin Guide spec.
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* Theme and Tools - Brian Moss: I'd like to do an openstackdocstheme release soon, as we've got some items (PDF styling, search page JS fix, image centering) that would be good to have in production. Any concerns or last minute items to merge please let me know. We've had some issues come up with the auto-generation scripts. Some have been fixed already (thanks Kato and Christian!), and we're investigating others. If you notice anything amiss or would like to help out, please let me know. 46 open bugs, 8 closed in Pike
  
 
== Doc team meeting ==
 
== Doc team meeting ==
 
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Our next meeting will be on Thursday 23 February at 2100 UTC in #openstack-meeting-alt. We will not be skipping the meeting in favor for the PTG as the docs sessions are on the Mon-Tues and I would love the opportunity to immediately report back to people who cannot attend.
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Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 7 April at 2100 UTC in #openstack-meeting-alt.
 
 
Meeting chair will be me (Alexandra Settle - asettle)! \o/
 
 
 
 
For more meeting details, including minutes and the agenda: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/DocTeamMeeting
 
For more meeting details, including minutes and the agenda: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/DocTeamMeeting
  
 
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Have a great weekend!
 
 
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7 April 2017

Team,

This week I have still been working on drafting a governance tag for our guides called "docs:follows-policy". I have been working with Doug Hellmann (dhellmann) in the last week to change to draft dramatically, so it would be good for docs people to review again. We are trying to make this a more broad tag now, so it can be applied for other guides too. To review: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/445536/ I am also in the process of documenting guidelines in our Contribution Guide - which would also benefit from doc reviews: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/453642/

Would like to call out and thank John Davidge for his awesome work with the Networking Guide and neutron-related patches. He's been providing valuable guidance, and reviews, and it has been greatly appreciated by myself and the team.

Lana Brindley has done an awesome job for the last two weeks in keeping our bug list under control. We are down to an amazing 102 bugs in queue, and 82 bugs closed this cycle already! Next week, I will be looking after the bug triage liaison role! If you're sitting there thinking "bugs are for me, I really love triaging bugs!" well, you're in luck! We have one spot open for the rest of the cycle (14 Aug - 28 Aug): https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/SpecialityTeams#Bug_Triage_Team

The Road to the Summit in Boston

Keep an eye out for the docs and I18n have a project onboarding room at the summit. Melvin Hillsman (mrhillsman) of the User Committee submitted a forum topic for the Ops Guide to get operator feedback. David Flanders from the Foundation has also proposed a forum topic for developer.openstack.org (which currently houses our API, SDK, and other dev stuff). We'll be discussing major changes to that and would like to see some feedback from people here. Any questions on that, shoot it my way. My main objective for this forum topic is to reduce our current technical debt that lives on this site. For more information on forum topics: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum Schedule has been released: https://www.openstack.org/summit/boston-2017/summit-schedul

Speciality Team Reports

  • API - Anne Gentle: API versioning in relation to release versioning is currently manually compiled for the 40-ish API services, so ideas on how to automate and surface that info welcomed. More info: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-March/114690.html
  • Configuration Reference and CLI Reference - Tomoyuki Kato: N/A
  • High Availability Guide - Ianeta Hutchinson: We are continuing to collaborate with OS DevOps team. See the tag ha-guide-draft for bugs opened to fill content for the new guide.
  • Hypervisor Tuning Guide - Blair Bethwaite: N/A
  • Installation guides - Lana Brindley: We have now branched, so please remember to backport if you have edits to the Ocata guide now. Big thanks to all the testers who have been working hard over the past month or two (that Nova cells bug was *tough*!), and to Brian and Mariia for doing the heavy lifting. Noticed a bunch links to draft versions of the guide in Newton/Ocata branches, backports for that have been merged, and the Contributor Guide updated so we don't miss it in the future (https://docs.openstack.org/contributor guide/release/taskdetail.html#update-links-in-all-books).
  • Networking Guide - John Davidge: More patches landed in the last couple of weeks dealing with the move to OSC, and more are still in flight. Progress also continues on RFC 5737 compliance. Thanks to all contributors for their work.
  • Operations and Architecture Design guides - Darren Chan: Arch Guide: edited architecture considerations content and cleaned up the index page structure which was applied across OS manuals. Some ops-related content was moved to the Ops Guide. Our current focus is improving the storage design content and networking design content.
  • Training Guides - Matjaz Pancur: N/A
  • Training labs - Roger Luethi: We released the Ocata version of training-labs this week.
  • User guides - Joseph Robinson: For the user guides - the spec on migrating the Admin Guide content this week moved closer to merging. I started preparing the work items for action on the User Guides tasks wiki page.
  • Theme and Tools - Brian Moss: Anne has a spec up for theme consolidation, please check it out: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/454346/, Brian has fixed up the sitemap tool tests, reviews welcome: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/453976/. 41 open bugs, 13 closed in Pike

Doc team meeting

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 20 April at 2100 UTC in #openstack-meeting-alt. For more meeting details, including minutes and the agenda: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/DocTeamMeeting The meeting chair will be me!

Big thanks to Joseph for stepping up in the last 2 meetings and hosting in my absence! Really appreciated it :)

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Have a great week :)

Alex

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27 March 2017

Team team team team team,

Well the last month has just FLOWN by since the PTG. We've got plenty going on in the docs team...

This week I have been helping out the security team with the Security Guide. We've been working on some cursory edits, and removal of content. A few patches have already made it through - thanks to the OSIC security team for tackling some of the outstanding bugs. There'll be more edits coming from me in the next few weeks. To see our planning: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/sec-guide-pike I am also in the process of drafting a governance tag for our install guides. Would be great for everyone to review and understand what the process will involve: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/445536/

Shoutout and big thanks to Brian Moss and the nova team who worked together tirelessly to document Nova v2 Cells and Placement API - which was a massive blocker for our Installation Guide.

Also, thank you to our Ocata release managers, Maria Zlatkova and Brian Moss for cutting the branch! Pike is well and truly underway now.

Ianeta Hutchinson has done an awesome job for the last two weeks in keeping our bug list under control. We are down to an amazing 104 bugs in queue, and 59 bugs closed this cycle already!

Next week, we have Lana who will be looking after the bug triage liaison role! If you're sitting there thinking "bugs are for me, I really love triaging bugs!" well, you're in luck! We have a few spots open for the rest of the cycle: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/SpecialityTeams#Bug_Triage_Team

The Road to the Summit in Boston

Speciality Team Reports

  • API - Anne Gentle: There's still a lot of discussion on https://review.openstack.org/#/c/421846/ which is about API change guidelines. Take a look and join in on the review. Also on the openstack-dev list, there's a thread about the future of the app catalog, which is relevant to the app developer audience so I include it here: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack dev/2017-March/113362.html Also related to the app dev audience is the wrapping up of the App Ecosystem working group: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2017-March/001825.html
  • Configuration Reference and CLI Reference - Tomoyuki Kato: N/A
  • High Availability Guide - Ianeta Hutchinson: At the Atlanta PTG, the documentation team outlined a new table of contents that is now upstream as a draft here: https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/tree/master/doc/ha-guide-draft. A blocker to progress in the past had been a lack of SME’s for the topic of high availability but that is no longer the case \o/. The OSIC DevOps team has an “adopt-a-guide” project in which they are collaborating with the OpenStack docs community and OSIC Docs team to apply the new ToC and validate all content for the guide. The progress of this collaboration is being tracked here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hw4axU2IbLlsjKpz9_EGlKQt0S6siViik7ETjNg_MgI/edit?usp=sharing> We are calling for more contributors both as SME's and tech writers. Ping iphutch if interested!
  • Hypervisor Tuning Guide - Blair Bethwaite: N/A
  • Installation guides - Lana Brindley: Cells bug is closer to being fixed, and we are closer to a complete test install (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/NewtonDocTesting look at all that green!). We're planning to branch Ocata by the end of this week.
  • Networking Guide - John Davidge: N/A
  • Operations and Architecture Design guides - Darren Chan: Arch Design Guide: Minor IA and general cleanup of the storage, compute, and networking sections in the Design chapter. Currently updating gaps in storage design content. Ops Guide: Removed cloud architecture content (migrated to the Arch Design Guide).
  • Security Guide - Nathaniel Dillon: Edits from Alex going through, and patches from the OSIC DevOps team. See above for more info.
  • Training Guides - Matjaz Pancur: For Training guides related topics: a new brand for activities around OpenStack Upstream University/Training. It is now known as OpenStack Upstream Institute (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_Upstream_Institute)
  • Training labs - Roger Luethi: We are currently testing our automated version of the Ocata install-guide. We had a problem with Ubuntu's new ISO image (16.04.2 LTS) which is now resolved.
  • User guides - Joseph Robinson: Several other Legacy commands were converted to OS commands this week. Reviewed the Admin Guide spec.
  • Theme and Tools - Brian Moss: I'd like to do an openstackdocstheme release soon, as we've got some items (PDF styling, search page JS fix, image centering) that would be good to have in production. Any concerns or last minute items to merge please let me know. We've had some issues come up with the auto-generation scripts. Some have been fixed already (thanks Kato and Christian!), and we're investigating others. If you notice anything amiss or would like to help out, please let me know. 46 open bugs, 8 closed in Pike

Doc team meeting

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 7 April at 2100 UTC in #openstack-meeting-alt. For more meeting details, including minutes and the agenda: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/DocTeamMeeting

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Have a great week :)

Alex

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