[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] [gluster-devel][gluster-users] Usability Initiative for Gluster: Documentation

[Amar Tumballi]

Thanks for the initiative Amye!

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Amye Scavarda <amye at redhat.com> wrote:

> One of the things that we're taking on for Gluster as a project is
> improving our usability overall - user experience, developer experience,
> contributor experience. We want Gluster to be fun to work with.
>
> As part of this, we'll be working on improving our overall documentation.
> Improving documentation is one of our big focuses as a project as we move
> into being more friendly to containers overall, through improving the table
> of contents, the style guide for how we're communicating with our users and
> outlining a better template structure for contribution. Finally, we'll be
> looking to match the look and feel of our new website as well.
>
>
+1


> How is this happening?
> We'll be creating another branch to make these changes without changing
> our current documentation. However, we're going to need your help - as
> you're creating documentation now, please check with either myself, Amar or
> Nithya so that we can keep release notes running in tandem for the new
> changes happening in the new structure, and what needs to be moved over
> from the current structure. We'll be manually diffing these as we work on
> going live with the new structure.
>
> This is of vital importance for us as a project and it's something we've
> been looking at for a long time. Our timelines for this are the next month
> to six weeks, and we'll be in a better place with our documentation to
> improve from here.
>
> Documentation improvements should reduce *lot* of load on few members here
who have to respond to similar questions over and over. Also many times I
heard that our flow of documentation is not great, hence took more time to
get to the documentation. Hope to see them fixed.

Thanks,
Amar


> Thanks!
> - amye
>
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Amar Tumballi (amarts)
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