Glance-where-are-the-docs
This info is accurate as of 23 June 2016.
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)
Note to Glance devs: file a bug when you plan to contribute to/update documentation so there's no duplication of effort.
Contents
"dev docs" written by the OpenStack developers working on Glance
- audience: there are two primary audiences:
- software developers who want to work on Glance and/or the python-glanceclient
- Glance users: "Developer docs should be anything you feel is relevant to Glance users that isn't covered in openstack-manuals. Basically, manuals can't cover everything, so this is where you make up the shortfall" (Lara Brindley, current Docs PTL)
- 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/
- status: not versioned, should always reflect master
- content: should contain information for contributors to the Glance project itself
- file bugs at:
- generate the docs locally withː
- tox -e docs
- It will create a directory /opt/stack/glance/doc/build which has html and man subdirectories
API Reference Documentation
- audience: prospective end users -- the intended audience consists of application developers and SDK developers who need precise and accurate information about the REST APIs implemented by Glance.
- file bugs at: http://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-api-site
- posted at http://api.openstack.org/api-ref.html (right now that URL is a frozen WADL version)
- currently posted at http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/image/
- source code:
- https://github.com/openstack/glance in api-ref/source directory
- v1 is merged, v2 is under review
API Reference (Narrative style)
- currently in the glance-specs repo
- currently published with the specs
- posted at:
- source code:
- https://github.com/openstack/glance-specs in specs/api directory
Glance installation guide
- under development, see http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/project-install-guide.html
OpenStack Manuals
- audience: consumers of OpenStack in their various roles. The manuals are broken into Installation, Ops & Admin, and User Guides.
- file bugs at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals
- source: https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals
- Find more on documentation team processes hereː http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/
- OpenStack Cloud Administrator Guide
- content: installation and administration information
- source files for glance related stuff
- openstack-manuals/doc/admin-guide/source/compute-images-instances.rst
- (may be some other stuff, and files are occasionally split/reorganized)
- posted at: http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide/
- "OpenStack Command-Line Interface Reference"
- openstack-manuals/doc/cli-reference/source/glance_property_keys.rst (suggested values for common image properties)
- openstack-manuals/doc/cli-reference/source/glance.rst (automatically generated from python-glanceclient help, so make changes in the glanceclient tree, not here)
- posted at http://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/
- "OpenStack Configuration Reference"
- doc/config-reference/source/image-service
- these are RST files that provide introductions to sections of the document
- the content displaying the options is generated from where the options are defined in the Glance code
- corrections/clarifications to the option descriptions must be corrected in the Glance code
- posted at: http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/config-reference/
- doc/config-reference/source/image-service
- OpenStack Virtual Machine Image Guide (not glance-specific)
- content: how to obtain, create, and modify virtual machine images that are compatible with OpenStack
- source: openstack-manuals/doc/image-guide/source/
- posted at: http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/
End User Guide
- source: openstack-manuals/doc/user-guide/source/
- (not sure what Glance content is in there ATM)
- posted at: http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/
- file bugs at: http://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals
- For other projects, see http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/docs-builds.html#documentation-source-and-target-locations
- For general documentation project info, see https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation
- Also, join #openstack-doc on Freenode for real time answers to questions.