Project Name: Documentation
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- Proposed name for the project: ''opnfv documentation''
- Proposed name for the repository: ''opnfvdocs''
- Project Categories: Documentation

Project description:
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- Produce documentation for OPNFV releases including but not limited to:

  - Release notes
  - Installation guide
  - User guide

    - Any relevant references and interface specifications for OPNFV projects or components.

  - Include any architecture diagrams or specifications, reference to OPNFV requirements list.
  - Provide guidelines and tooling for documentation handling across all OPNFV projects

Scope:
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- Set up a structure, and a template, for document development with source control
  (same as source code). Leveraging upstream documentation structure and tools.
- Following as close as possible the same contribution process & tools as our source code
- Structure OPNFV documentation logically
- Develop initial set of release documents:

  - Release note
  - Install guide
  - User Guide
  - API reference (if there is content in release 1)
  - Interface specification  (if there is content in release 1)

- Provide language options for documentation where applicable: In first release English only,
  Wiki (via HTML scraping from Gerrit), and PDF.
- Provide tooling and processes for OPNFV projects to implement and follow for consistency

Dependencies:
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- All OPNFV projects participating in a release.
- Upstream project documentation to be referenced
- Where there are external fora or standard development organization dependencies,
  list informative and normative references & specifications.


Committers and Contributors:
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- Name of and affiliation of the project leader :

  - Christopher Price: christopher.price@ericsson.com

- Names and affiliations of the committers

  - Christopher Price: christopher.price@ericsson.com
  - Wenjing Chu (Dell):  wenjing_chu@dell.com
  - Ashiq Khan (NTTdocomo): khan@nttdocomo.com
  - Fatih Degirmenci: fatih.degirmenci@ericsson.com
  - Rodriguez, Iben: Iben.Rodriguez@spirent.com
  - Malla Reddy Sama: sama@docomolab-euro.com

- Any other contributors

  - Bryan Sullivan (AT&T)
  - Trevor Cooper: trevor.cooper@intel.com


Description of roles in the documentation project:

- Committers (Editors): has overall responsibility of document structure, editing, style and toolchains
- opnfvdocs contributors: individual section will have contributors who are domain experts in those areas,
  other contributors may simply help out working on the documentation and tools as needed.
- other projects: Committers will be responsible for maintaining documentation artifacts in project repositories.

Planned deliverables
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- Project release documentation for OPNFV

  - Including collation of all release relevant project documentations

- Establishment and maintenance of the OPNFV documentation processes and toolchains


Proposed Release Schedule:
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- opnfvdocs will follow each OPNFV release and produce needed documentation

  - Release 1 will provide basic documentation including revision control.
  - By release 2 a multi-project toolchain will be in place with processes and version control
  - Iterative improvements to the processes and toolchains are expected on a release by release basis.


**Documentation tracking**

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    Revision: 605ebda328a1048bf0ffee946c53f8bddd0cd714
    Build date: 2016-04-27