[ovs-discuss] Centralizing OVS-DPDK Blogs

[Stokes, Ian]

> > On Mar 28, 2017, at 4:15 AM, Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > There are a number of useful blogs maintained by Intel for OVS-DPDK.
> These range from simple 'how-to' articles for specific feature to more
> technical deep dives of how features work under the hood.
> >
> > Currently these blogs are hosted on the Intel Developer Zone (and will
> continue to be), but there have been suggestions that it could be useful
> to expose them in a more central manner to OVS users.
> >
> > This could include one or more of the following
> >
> > 1. Expand existing OVS docs with blog content.
> > 2. Adding the blogs to the OVS cookbook.
> > 3. Creating a news feed for OVS using something like the Planet feed
> reader for the OVS webpage. (http://www.planetplanet.org/)
> >
> > This issue was raised at the OVS-DPDK community meeting and it was
> decided to kick off a community discussion for more input before taking
> action.
> >
> > Do people feel centralizing OVS-DPDK content to the OVS project would be
> useful or is the status quo preferred?
> 
> Thanks for bringing this up.  For basic documentation, I think it makes
> sense to expand the existing docs where appropriate.
> 
> We've talked about adding some cookbook-like documentation for OVN.  It
> would be nice to use the same mechanism for both.  In the past, we've
> hosted cookbooks on the main OVS website, but they weren't regularly
> updated, and sort of fell into disrepair.  A good path forward might be to
> introduce them into the OVS repo, since they're now displayed nicely
> through Read the Docs (https://readthedocs.org).
> 

+1 on this, using the repo is a good way to future proof the material which is also a goal of centralizing them.
 
> I'd be curious to get others' opinions--especially Ben and Stephen since
> they were so involved in the last documentation overhaul.

Good idea, any input would be appreciated.

Ian
> 
> --Justin
>