Obsolete:Documentation/ToDo

Starting a Documentation To-Do list, not necessarily in priority order.

For a discussion of Documentation priorities for the Cactus release, refer to http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-02-08-21.00.log.html and scroll to #topic Documentation priorities for Cactus. Top priority so far is OpenStack API documentation. Also listed is flag documentation.

Here's a brief to-do list based on incoming requests. Feel free to contact Anne Gentle (anne at openstack dot org) to sign up for any of these tasks.

Document and test VM image fixes for http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaVirtually so that a Bexar (2011.1.1 release) works on VM
Write ajax console doc - start with http://wiki.openstack.org/WebBasedSerialConsole, contact person is Anthony Young, sleepsonthefloor on IRC
Write better flags documentation - start with http://wiki.openstack.org/FlagsGrouping, which ThierryCarrez wrote, and we should take it over to docs.openstack.org in the openstack-manuals project and add configuration how-tos
Get Glance installation on docs.openstack.org - docbook XML files exist in openstack-manuals but needs to be included in Compute Admin book and tested
Write sidebar content for docs.openstack.org (Anne Gentle in openstack-manuals)
Figure out drawn character placement for docs.openstack.org
Write Hypervisor docs - Xen, KVM, qemu, hyper-v - in openstack-manuals
Write wiki page about getting from code to testing (http://wiki.openstack.org/Testing)
Document all settings for Swift, even “easter eggs” (https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/661267)
Document how to configure Nova to use IPv6 addresses (openstack-manuals)
Document how to configure Nova to use Glance (openstack-manuals)
Benchmarking for Swift
Email Kei (Masumotok at NTT) to tell him how to contribute docs for live migration (Anne Gentle)
Work with Trey to get docs onto other sites for Xen server implementations
Write up how docs.openstack.org works in detail (Anne Gentle)
Fix file naming and chunking with docbook output (Anne Gentle/David Cramer)
Test localization on OpenStack wiki - see also http://www.openstack.or.kr/wiki/index.php/OpenStack
Double-check Nova networking images that should be added to nova.openstack.org site (Anne Gentle)
Getting Started document for Stack on a Stick (Anne sent to Dustin Kirkland, but it doesn't include Swift SAIO)
Document RHEL6 installation on docs.openstack.org from http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaInstall/RHEL6Notes - contact is BK_man on IRC
Write additional information about making images that work well with OpenStack - add to the DocBook file in the openstack-manuals project (Mark Pace)
Missing documentation about nova-api.conf (https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/705070)
Doc missing: env http_proxy must be disabled when starting nova daemons by hand (https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/718900)
Add how to push out new rings to the admin guide (https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/620586)
Omissions in stats system on SAIO docs (https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/680188)
Document config options and defaults in sample configs for Swift (https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/661267)

Questions that have come in on IRC lately:

Are there recommended file system structures for OpenStack Compute?
Networking: How does the Nova Network component route network traffic? Does it get affected when the compute host goes down?
Networking and Projects and Users: What are the relationships between networks and projects, what are best practices for particular use cases?