On 06/10/14 11:38, Nick Chase wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Tom Fifield <t...@openstack.org > <mailto:t...@openstack.org>> wrote: > > On 04/10/14 04:03, Nick Chase wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stef...@openstack.org > <mailto:stef...@openstack.org> > > <mailto:stef...@openstack.org <mailto:stef...@openstack.org>>> wrote: > > > 1. Pick an existing topic or create a new topic. For new topics, > > we're > > > primarily interested in deployment scenarios. > > > 2. Develop content (text and/or diagrams) in a format that > > supports at > > > least basic markup (e.g., titles, paragraphs, lists, etc.). > > > 3. Provide a link to the content (e.g., gist on github.com > <http://github.com> > > <http://github.com>, wiki page, > > > blog post, etc.) under the associated topic. > > > > Points 1-3 seem to be oriented at removing Launchpad from the > equation. > > Is that all there is? I guess it makes sense to remove obstacles, > > although editing the wiki (since it requires a launchpad account > anyway) > > may not be the best way to track progress and see assignments. > > > > > > No, really, the main change is in step 5. Launchpad isn't the problem, > > as far as we can tell; Docbook is. > > Hi Nick, > > As best I can tell - 'step 5' has been in place for at least the last > few summits at least, so this is not a change :) We have had a policy > where anyone can dump text in bug reports and we'll wrangle it. This has > been popular, see eg Marco Cossoni's contributions, but in my opinion > not widely enough communicated - so thanks for your efforts. > > > Right, again, it's fantastic that people can dump text in bug reports, > and yes, it's probably not well known. We're just trying to sort of > widen out what people are sending from a few paragraphs to entire > topics. But hey, the general idea is the same. We're all trying to get > to the same point. > > Obviously there's something about the current process that's not working > as well as it could. This experiment is about trying to figure out > what. If all we're changing is moving the contribution point from a bug > report to a wiki, then great; having just one changed variable among > control variables is good science. > > > > > > 4. Send e-mail to reviewers network...@openstacknow.com > <mailto:network...@openstacknow.com> > > <mailto:network...@openstacknow.com > <mailto:network...@openstacknow.com>>. > > > > Why not use the docs mailing list or other facilities on > > @openstack.org <http://openstack.org> <http://openstack.org>? > > Who is responding to that address? > > > > > > If someone want to provide us a list on @openstack.org > <http://openstack.org> > > <http://openstack.org>, that'd be awesome. I set up this address > > because I control the forwarding and could do it immediately without > > having to ask for anyone's approval. :) > > > > People on the alias are myself, Edgar Magana, Matt Kasawara, Phil > > Hopkins, Anne Gentle, and Elke Vorheis. > > I find it quite odd that the larger team is being excluded from this > effort. Why would it need a separate mailing list? > > > We haven't intentionally excluded anybody; we were just keeping it small > both to keep it a focused effort -- this way we could more easily hash > things out without anybody stepping on anybody else -- and so that we > weren't essentially volunteering people against their will. :) But we > can easily change it over to the main docs list.
Yup - I think that would be more in the spirit of our Open Development core principle and I would encourage you to do so. Regards, Tom _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev