Difference between revisions of "Glance-where-are-the-docs"

Revision as of 02:59, 8 November 2013

This info is accurate as of 10 September 2013.

Info about contributing to the documentation is here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation (basically, you clone a repo and use gerrit just like you do for code)

"dev docs" written for Python developers by developers working on glance

• generated from the rst files in the doc/source directory in the source code
• posted at:
  • http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/
  • http://docs.openstack.org/developer/python-glanceclient/
• content: should contain information for contributors to the Glance project itself
• file bugs at:
  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance
  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-glanceclient

"API docs" written for application developers and people who upload images programmatically

• audience: these are "prospective end user docs" that a cloud provider would use as the basis to create custom API docs for their particular cloud
• generated from files in https://github.com/openstack/image-api
• v1 generated from XML files in openstack-image-service-api/src/docbkx
  • posted at: http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-image-service/1.1/content/
• v2 generated from markdown files in openstack-image-service-api/src/markdown
  • posted at: http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-image-service/2.0/content/
• content: the API specifications
• file bugs at: http://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-api-site

API Quick Reference Docs

• generated from XML files in: https://github.com/openstack/api-site
• posted at: http://api.openstack.org/api-ref.html
• content: quick ref docs and WADLs for the API
• file bugs at: http://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-api-site

"operator docs"

• generated from XML files in https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals
• file bugs at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals
• OpenStack Compute Administration Guide
  • content: installation and administration information
  • source files for glance-specific stuff:
    • doc/common/section_glance_cli_manage_images.xml
    • doc/common/section_glance_image-formats.xml
  • source files for glance related stuff (some suggested values for image properties):
    • doc/admin-guide-cloud/section_adding-images.xml
  • (may be some other stuff, and files are occasionally split/reorganized)
  • posted at: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/
• OpenStack Virtual Machine Image Guide (not glance-specific)
  • content: how to obtain, create, and modify virtual machine images that are compatible with OpenStack
  • source: https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/tree/master/doc/image-guide
  • posted at: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-image/content/

End User Guide (formerly, the "quickstart" guide)

• I believe this does not exist any more ... need to check
• generated from XML files in https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals
  • doc/user-guide/section_glance_cli.xml
  • doc/user-guide/section_glance_cli_commands.xml
• posted at: http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/
• file bugs at: http://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals