This talk was co-presented with Alex Settle at the Denver OpenStack Summit in April 2019. It serves as a brief history of documentation within OpenStack along with a how-to on contributing to documentation today.
Back in the old days, OpenStack’s documentation was managed by a central team and written in the unspeakable horror that is DocBook. Things have changed a lot since then, with documentation now spread out across multiple projects and Sphinx the documentation tool du jour. This presents a lot of opportunities for people, be they long-term contributors or novices, to make a real impact to OpenStack’s documentation. In this talk, we detail how one can get started contributing in this area, be it through writing your own guides, using Sphinx to automatically generate docs or simply fixing a typo. Viva la documentation!
More information is available on the OpenStack Summit website.