OpenStack Documentation

Mission

• Provide documentation for core OpenStack projects to promote OpenStack.
• Develop and maintain tools and processes to ensure quality, accurate documentation.
• Treat documentation like OpenStack code.

Sites

• https://docs.openstack.org
• https://developer.openstack.org

Documentation team structure

• Specialty teams
  • API, Contributor Guide, Security Guide, Training Guides, Training Labs
• Docs cores and separate core teams for docs-specs , contributor-guide , security-doc , and training-guides
• Documentation cross-project liaisons for questions, reviews, doc bug triaging, and patching docs

Repositories

• Official deliverables with repositories
• Project repos have installation tutorials and developer documentation
  • Example: Heat repository
    • Developer documentation is published from doc directory in master branch
    • Installation Tutorial (Ocata) is published from install-guide directory in stable/ocata branch

Bug reports

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-api-site
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-training-guides
• https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/913

Contributor guide

• https://docs.openstack.org/doc-contrib-guide/index.html

This guide provides detailed instructions on the contribution workflow and conventions to be considered by all documentation contributors.

Building documentation

• https://docs.openstack.org/doc-contrib-guide/docs-builds.html

EOL documents

• EOL documents are not maintained in the documentation repositories, the content is frozen, but published documents are accessible by retention policy
  • See EOL status at: https://releases.openstack.org