Hi Mark

Have you got any examples of documentation that would be good to migrate?

Sounds great though

Thanks
Tim

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 22:39, Mark Waite <[email protected]> wrote:

> The documentation team at CloudBees has asked if the community would be
> interested in reworking or adjusting documentation that CloudBees has
> created for their product to describe similar use cases on www.jenkins.io.
> The documentation team at CloudBees does not have the capacity to perform
> the transformation themselves, but would be happy to allow others to use
> their material, validate that it works with the most recent Jenkins LTS,
> update the screenshots to use Jenkins rather than the CloudBees product,
> and submit it as a pull request to the Jenkins documentation.
>
> I envision that the process would be similar to our Wiki migration
> process.  I think it would work something like this:
>
>    - A CloudBees documentation team member creates a GitHub issue for
>    content that could be reworked or reused on www.jenkins.io.  The
>    GitHub issue provides the source text and images for reference or provides
>    a link to a publicly accessible location that includes the source text and
>    images
>    - A Jenkins contributor adds a comment to the GitHub issue that says,
>    "I'm working on this"
>    - The Jenkins contributor uses the CloudBees ASCIIDOC, adjusts the
>    phrasing as needed to apply to Jenkins, confirms that it works with
>    Jenkins, and updates any screenshots to use Jenkins
>    - The Jenkins contributor adds an attribution to CloudBees (per the
>    Creative Commons SA 4.0 license) to the bottom of the page submitted for
>    www.jenkins.io
>    - The Jenkins contributor submits a pull request and the changes are
>    reviewed in the usual pull request review process
>
> I believe the same process could be used by any company that delivers
> products based on Jenkins.
>
> Some of the questions that arise for me:
>
>    - Is that type of process within the bounds of the www.jenkins.io
>    licensing?
>    - Does this need a JEP or is it sufficient to discuss on the
>    developers list?
>    - Are there any special approvals required for this type of content?
>    - Are there issues or concerns with the technique?
>
> Some questions that others might ask:
>
>    - Why not just ask the CloudBees documentation team to submit the pull
>    request to www.jenkins.io themselves?
>
>    Their focus is on documenting their commercial product for their
>    commercial customers.  They are willing to share their content with the
>    Jenkins community, but they can't take the time to rework their content for
>    use in the www.jenkins.io site.  If the community would like to use
>    the content, they are welcome to do so
>
>    - Who will review the pull requests and mentor the contributors?
>
>    The same people that are currently reviewing pull requests will review
>    these as well
>
> I'd like to discuss this here in the developers list with the assumption
> that if there are significant issues or questions, we work through them
> here on the list.  If we don't detect significant issues, then I'd bring
> the topic to a governance meeting to confirm that the Jenkins Board is OK
> with the idea.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Waite
>
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