Glance-where-are-the-docs

This info is accurate as of 1 August 2013.

Info about contributing to the documentation is here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation

Note to Glance devs: file a bug when you plan to contribute to/update documentation so there's no duplication of effort.

"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

• 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
• for glance:
  • doc/src/docbkx/common/adding-images.xml
  • doc/src/docbkx/common/ch_image_mgmt.xml
  • doc/src/docbkx/common/image-formats.xml
  • (may be some other stuff, and files are occasionally split/reorganized)
• posted at: http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/
• content: installation and administration information
• file bugs at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals

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

• generated from XML files in https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals
  • doc/src/docbkx/cli-guide/src/glance_cli_commands.xml
  • doc/src/docbkx/cli-guide/src/glance_cli_howto.xml
• posted at: http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/
• file bugs at: http://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals

For other projects, see https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/Builds#Source_and_target_locations_of_documentation_.28current.29