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Release Notes
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.. _commit_message_tags:
Using Commit Message Tags in Manila
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updates to documentation in order to be understood. This tag can also be
used if the documentation is provided along with the patch itself. This will
also generate a Launchpad bug in manila for triaging and tracking.
Refer to the section on :ref:`documenting_your_work` to understand where
to add documentation.
- **Implements: | Partially Implements:** *blueprint <name_of_blueprint>* - Use
this tag when a change implements or partially implements the given blueprint
in Launchpad. This will automatically generate a link to the blueprint in

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.. _documenting_your_work:
=====================
Documenting your work
=====================
As with most OpenStack services and libraries, manila suffers from appearing
very complicated to understand, develop, deploy, administer and use. As
OpenStack developers working on manila, our responsibility goes beyond
introducing new features and maintaining existing features. We ought to
provide adequate documentation for the benefit of all kinds of audiences. The
guidelines below will explain how you can document (or maintain
documentation for) new (or existing) features and bug fixes in the core manila
project and other projects that are part of the manila suite.
Where to add documentation?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OpenStack User Guide
--------------------
- Any documentation targeted at end users of manila in OpenStack needs to go
here. This contains high level information about any feature as long as it
is available on ``python-manilaclient`` and/or ``manila-ui``.
- If you develop an end user facing feature, you need to provide an
overview, use cases and example work-flows as part of this documentation.
- **Link**: `User guide <http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/>`_
- **Repository**: The user guide is maintained within the
`OpenStack Manuals project <https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals>`_
OpenStack Administrator Guide
-----------------------------
- Documentation for administrators of manila deployments in OpenStack clouds
needs to go here.
- Document instructions for administrators to perform necessary set up
for utilizing a feature, along with managing and troubleshooting manila
when the feature is used.
- Relevant configuration options may be mentioned here briefly.
- **Link**: `Administrator guide <http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide/>`_
- **Repository**: The administrator guide is maintained within the
`OpenStack Manuals project <https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals>`_
OpenStack Configuration Reference
---------------------------------
- Instructions regarding configuration of different manila back ends need to
be added in this document.
- The configuration reference also contains sections where manila's
configuration options are auto-documented.
- It contains sample configuration files for using manila with various
configuration options.
- If you are a driver maintainer, please ensure that your driver and all of
its relevant configuration is documented here.
- **Link**: `Mitaka release configuration reference
<http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/config-reference/>`_
- **Repository**: The configuration reference is maintained within the
`OpenStack Manuals project <https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals>`_
OpenStack Installation Guide
----------------------------
- Instructions regarding setting up manila on OpenStack need to be documented
here.
- This guide covers step-by-step deployment of OpenStack services using a
functional example architecture suitable for new users of OpenStack with
sufficient Linux experience.
- The instructions are written together, but with the help of tags are
separated out into per-distro installation guides for hosting on the
documentation website.
- The installation instructions for manila in the Mitaka release lived
alongside the major projects in the installation guide. However, with the
Newton release, the install guide will be part of manila's code tree.
- **Links**:
- `Mitaka installation guide for openSUSE and SLES
<http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/install-guide-obs/>`_
- `Mitaka installation guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
<http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/install-guide-rdo/>`_
- `Mitaka installation guide for Ubuntu 14.04
<http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/install-guide-ubuntu/>`_
- **Repository**: The installation guide is maintained within the
`OpenStack Manuals project
<https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals>`_. However, with the
Newton release, manila's install guide will live in its project tree.
.. TODO(gouthamr): add actual links and repo instructions when available.
OpenStack API Reference
-----------------------
- When you add or change a REST API in manila, you will need to add or edit
descriptions of the API, request and response parameters, microversions and
expected HTTP response codes as part of the API reference.
- For releases prior to Newton, the API reference was maintained in `Web
Application Description Language (WADL)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Description_Language>`_
- Starting with the Newton release, manila's API reference will be maintained
in-tree in custom YAML/JSON format files.
- **Links**:
- `REST API reference of the Shared File Systems Project v1.0
<http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-share-v1.html>`_
- `REST API reference of the Shared File Systems Project v2.0
<http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-share-v2.html>`_
- **Repository**: The API reference is maintained within the
`OpenStack API Site repository
<https://github.com/openstack/api-site>`_. However, with the Newton release,
manila's API reference will live in its project tree.
.. TODO(gouthamr): add actual links and repo instructions when available.
Manila Developer Reference
--------------------------
- When working on a feature in manila, provide judicious inline documentation
in the form of comments and docstrings. Code is our best developer reference.
- Driver entry-points must be documented with docstrings explaining the
expected behavior from a driver routine.
- Apart from inline documentation, further developer facing documentation
will be necessary when you are introducing changes that will affect vendor
drivers, consumers of the manila database and when building a utility in
manila that can be consumed by other developers.
- The developer reference for manila is maintained in-tree.
- Feel free to use it as a sandbox for other documentation that does not
live in manila's code-tree.
- **Link**: `Manila developer reference
<http://docs.openstack.org/developer/manila/>`_
OpenStack Security Guide
-------------------------
- Any feature that has a security impact needs to be documented here.
- In general, administrators will follow the guidelines regarding best
practices of setting up their manila deployments with this guide.
- Any changes to ``policy.json`` based authorization, share network related
security, ``access`` to manila resources, tenant and user related
information needs to be documented here.
- **Link**: `Security guide <http://docs.openstack.org/security-guide/>`_
- **Repository**: The security guide is maintained within the
`OpenStack Security-doc project <https://github.com/openstack/security-doc>`_
OpenStack Command Line Reference
--------------------------------
- Help text provided in the ``python-manilaclient`` is extracted into this
document automatically.
- No manual corrections are allowed on this repository; make necessary
corrections in the ``python-manilaclient`` repository."
- **Link**: `Manila CLI reference
<http://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/manila.html>`_
- **Repository**: The CLI reference is maintained within the
`OpenStack Manuals project
<https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals>`_.
Important things to note
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- When implementing a new feature, use appropriate
Commit Message Tags (:ref:`commit_message_tags`).
- Using the ``DocImpact`` flag in particular will create a ``[doc]`` bug
under the `manila project in launchpad
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/manila>`_. When your code patch merges, assign
this bug to yourself and track your documentation changes with it.
- When writing documentation outside of manila, use either a commit message
header that includes the word ``Manila`` or set the topic of the
change-set to ``manila-docs``. This will make it easy for manila reviewers
to find your patches to aid with a technical content review.
- When writing documentation in user/admin/config/api/install guides,
*always* refer to the project with its service name: ``Shared File Systems
service`` and not the service type (``share``) or the project name
(``manila``).
- Follow documentation styles prescribed in the `OpenStack Documentation
Contributor Guide <http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/>`_. Pay
heed to the `RST formatting conventions
<http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/rst-conv.html>`_
and `Writing style
<http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/writing-style.html>`_.
- Use CamelCase to spell out `OpenStack` and sentence casing to
spell out service types, ex: `Shared File Systems service` and lower case
to spell out project names, ex: `manila` (except when the project name is in
the beginning of a sentence or a title).
- **ALWAYS** use a first party driver when documenting a feature in the user
or administrator guides. Provide cross-references to configuration
reference sections to lead readers to detailed setup instructions for
these drivers.
- The manila developer reference, the OpenStack user guide, administrator
reference, API reference and security guide are always *current*, i.e, get
built with every commit in the respective codebase. Therefore, documentation
added here need not be backported to previous releases.
- You may backport changes to some documentation such as the configuration
reference and the installation guide. Refer to the instructions `here
<http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/additional-git-workflow/
backport.html>`_.
- **Important "documentation" that isn't really documentation** - ``specs`` and
``release notes`` are *NOT* documentation. A specification document is
written to initiate a dialogue and gather feedback regarding the
design of a feature. Neither developers nor users will regard a
specification document as official documentation after a feature has been
implemented. Release notes (:ref:`adding_release_notes`) allow for
gathering release summaries and they are not used to understand,
configure, use or troubleshoot any manila feature.
- **Less is not more, more is more** - Always add detail when possible. The
health and maturity of our community is reflected in our documentation.

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