Nice!



On 9/19/16, 6:06 PM, "Casey Stella" <ceste...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I noticed that our public facing docs were really getting stale.  This is a
>normal thing in a fast moving project, but I imagine it's really hard for
>the community to get engaged with a project that has such details caught up
>inside of code and unit tests.  As such, I thought it is reasonable to
>spend a little time ensuring the docs are better organized and clear, so I
>spent the day focusing on that:
>
>   1. they were nonexistent in a lot of places like model as a service
>   which are new
>   2. they were stale (mostly around stellar functions)
>   3. they were incomplete (parsers take configs, we don't document
>   that..we now do)
>   4. they were not clear. I added some clarification and pictures of the
>   topologies
>   5. they were in the wrong place (e.g. enrichment config documentation
>   was in metron-common instead of metron-enrichment)
>   6. there wasn't a starting place from the top level Readme into the
>   scary subdepths of the individual projects
>
>I also gave a small fully worked example for some of the commonly confusing
>tasks, like doing a stellar enrichment or deploying a MaaS model.  I wrote
>them up, but they were caught up inside of PR comments, this just brought
>them into the docs.
>
>You can find the PR here
><https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/260>. It's already gotten
>a +1, but I'd love to see some discussion around what ELSE we can do to
>make it easier to get community contributions.  After all, there would be
>no Metron without its community.
>
>Best,
>
>Casey

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