From: Anne Gentle <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 2:16 PM
To: Alexandra Settle <[email protected]>
Cc: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" 
<[email protected]>, "[email protected]" 
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OpenStack-docs] [docs][release][ptl] Adding docs to the release 
schedule



On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Alexandra Settle 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi everyone,

I would like to propose that we introduce a “Review documentation” period on 
the release schedule.

We would formulate it as a deadline, so that it fits in the schedule and making 
it coincide with the RC1 deadline.

For projects that are not following the milestones, we would translate this new 
inclusion literally, so if you would like your project to be documented at 
docs.o.o, then doc must be introduced and reviewed one month before the branch 
is cut.

I like this idea, and it can align certain docs with string freeze logically.

I think the docs that are governed with this set of rules should be scoped only 
to those that are synched with a release, namely the Configuration Reference, 
Networking Guide, and Install Guides. [1]

For reference, those are the guides that would best align with "common cycle 
with development milestones." [2]

Scope this proposal to the released guides, clarify which repo those will be 
in, who can review and merge, and precisely when the cutoff is, and you're onto 
something here. Plus, I can hear the translation teams cheering. :)


I completely agree with everything here :) my only question is, what do you 
mean by “clarify which repo those will be in”? I had no intention of moving 
documentation with this suggestion Install guides either in openstack-manuals 
or their own $project repos :)

Next question – since there doesn’t appear to be a huge ‘no don’t do the thing’ 
coming from the dev list at this point, how and where do we include this new 
release information? Here? 
https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/release-management.html#release-1

Anne


1. 
https://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/blueprints-and-specs.html#release-specific-documentation

2. 
https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/release-management.html#common-cycle-with-development-milestones


In the last week since we released Ocata, it has become increasingly apparent 
that the documentation was not updated from the development side. We were not 
aware of a lot of new enhancements, features, or major bug fixes for certain 
projects. This means we have released with incorrect/out-of-date documentation. 
This is not only an unfortunately bad reflection on our team, but on the 
project teams themselves.

The new inclusion to the schedule may seem unnecessary, but a lot of people 
rely on this and the PTL drives milestones from this schedule.

From our side, I endeavor to ensure our release managers are working harder to 
ping and remind doc liaisons and PTLs to ensure the documentation is 
appropriately updated and working to ensure this does not happen in the future.

Thanks,

Alex


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