[Gluster-devel] [gluster-devel] Documentation Tooling Review

[Prashanth Pai]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Amye Scavarda" <amye at redhat.com>
> To: "Niels de Vos" <ndevos at redhat.com>, "Humble Chirammal" <hchiramm at redhat.com>, "Prashanth Pai" <ppai at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Amye Scavarda" <amye at redhat.com>, "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
> Sent: Monday, 15 August, 2016 10:45:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] [gluster-devel] Documentation Tooling Review
> 
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 01:23:43PM -0700, Amye Scavarda wrote:
> > > The Red Hat Gluster Storage documentation team and I had a conversation
> > > about how we can our upstream documentation more consistent and improved
> > > for our users, and they're willing to work with us to find where the
> > major
> > > gaps are in our documentation. This is awesome! But it's going to take
> > some
> > > work on our side to make this a reality.
> > >
> > > One piece that's come up is that we should probably look towards changing
> > > current tooling for this. It turns out that our ReadTheDocs instance
> > search
> > > is failing because we're using markdown, and this is a known issue. It
> > > doesn't look like it's going to be fixed anytime soon.
> > >
> > > Rather than continue to try to make RTD serve our needs, I'd like to
> > > propose the following changes to where our documentation lives and in
> > what
> > > language:
> > > I'd much rather pattern after docs.openshift.org, move to ASCIIdoc and
> > use
> > > ASCIIbinder as our engine to power this. What that does is give us
> > control
> > > over our overall infrastructure underneath our documentation, maintain
> > our
> > > existing git workflow for adding to documentation, and matches with other
> > > communities that we work closely with. I'm mindful that there's a burden
> > of
> > > migration again, but we'll be able to resolve a lot of the challenges we
> > > have with documentation currently: more control over layout, ability to
> > > change the structure to make it more user friendly, use our own search
> > > however we see fit.
> > >
> > > I'm happy to take comments on this proposal. Over the next week, I'll be
> > > reviewing the level of effort it would take to migrate to ASCIIdocs and
> > > ASCIIbinder, with the goal being to have this in place by end of
> > September.
> >
> > Sounds like a plan to me. I'm not sure how much you have discussed this
> > with the current doc maintainers, I think there is some restructuring of
> > the contents going on as well. It would be a shame if that is lost in
> > the process.
> >
> > Adding Humble and Prasanth here I as I'm not sure what this restructuring
> movement is?

We've tried moving parts of documentation to .rst from markdown to check it out
as we waited far too long for an update from RTD folks and from Red Hat
documentation team.

But hey this is good news that Red Hat documentation team is contributing
and hopefully user documentation woes will end soon.

> 
> 
> Thanks!
> - amye
> 
> 
> > Could you (or one of the other doc maintainers) give a talk/demo at the
> > Gluster Summit about the process of contributing to the documentation? I
> > have the feeling only very few people are aware how to send
> > documentation changes.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Niels
> >
> 
> 
> 
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> Amye Scavarda | amye at redhat.com | Gluster Community Lead
>