ok, +0 then, I'm off for a coffee.
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Jessica Tomechak <jessica.tomec...@citrix.com> wrote: > I'm +0 on it. Don't really mind either way. > > Jessica T. > ________________________________________ > From: Radhika Puthiyetath [radhika.puthiyet...@citrix.com] > Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 9:25 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: RE: Breaking docs out > > Make perfect sense. > + 1 > > -Radhika > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 3:13 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Breaking docs out > > Hi folks: > > I'd like to propose breaking out a nuymber of our documents into their own > repos. > > My thinking is that specifically; the release notes, midonet, and niciranvp > documentation shares very little with the rest of the documentation, and > should be broken out akin to how the QIG is currently broken out. > > The particular problem I am trying to solve is to deal with publishing. For > instance, even though the release notes are contained in just a few xml > documents, it copies content from every single xml file in thd directory - > over 400 - and it also copies those up to the website. > > Splitting things up also allows us to prioritize l10n. Right now, we just > dump 400 xml files worth of content into transifex and people translate away > - they can't put a priority on release notes, or de-emphasize more esoteric > documentation like Nicira or Midonet. > > Eventually I'd like to break out each of the individual guides into their own > document - separate from the other. Right now they carry a ton of similar > content so that isn't very practical; but it's what I am thinking, perhaps > for 4.4 or 4.5. > > In the meantime, I'd like to make this change as soon as we think we have > documentation pretty close to done for 4.2 to minimize the disruptive effects. > > Thoughts, comments, flames? > > --David
