confirmed On 25/09/14 12:10 AM, Anne Gentle wrote: > I'm writing to announce my candidacy for the Documentation Program > Technical Lead (PTL). > > The past six months have flown by. I still recall writing up wish lists > per-deliverable on the plane home from the Atlanta Summit and the great > news is many are completed. Of course we still have a lot to do. > > We face many challenges as an open source community as we grow and define > ourselves through our users. As documentation specialists, we have to be > creative with our resourcing for documentation as the number of teams and > services increases each release. This release we have: > - experimented with using RST sourcing for a chapter about Heat Templates > - managed to keep automating where it makes sense, using the toolset we > keep improving upon > - held another successful book sprint for the Architecture and Design Guide > - split out a repo for the training group focusing not only on training > guides but also scripts and other training specialties > - split out the Security Guide with their own review team; completed a > thorough review of that guide > - split out the High Availability Guide with their own review team from > discussions at the Ops Meetup > - began a Networking Guide pulling together as many interested parties as > possible before and after the Ops Meetup with a plan for hiring a contract > writer to work on it with the community > - added the openstack common client help text to the CLI Reference > - added Chinese, German, French, and Korean language landing pages to the > docs site > - generated config option tables with each milestone release (with few > exceptions of individual projects) > - lost a key contributor to API docs (Diane's stats didn't decline far yet: > http://stackalytics.com/?user_id=diane-fleming&release=juno) > - still working towards a new design for page-based docs > - still working on API reference information > - still working on removing "spec" API documents to avoid duplication and > confusion > - still testing three of four install guides for the JUNO release (that > we're nearly there is just so great) > > So you can see we have much more to do, but we have come so far. Even in > compiling this list I worry I'm missing items, there's just so much scope > to OpenStack docs. We serve users, deployers, administrators, and app > developers. It continues to be challenging but we keep looking for ways to > make it work. > > We have seen amazing contributors like Andreas Jaeger, Matt Kassawara, > Gauvain Pocentek, and Christian Berendt find their stride and shine. Yes, I > could name more but these people have done an incredible job this release. > > I'm especially eager to continue collaborating with great managers like > Nick Chase at Mirantis and Lana Brindley at Rackspace -- they see what we > can accomplish when enterprise doc teams work well with an upstream. > They're behind-the-scenes much of the time but I must express my gratitude > to these two pros up front. > > Thanks for your consideration. I'd be honored to continue to serve in this > role. > Anne > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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