Five things every contributor should know about the OpenStack docs project

New docs contributors may be afraid of moving too fast and breaking things - but don’t worry, you can’t. A simpler markup language and a robust community of experienced, multilingual contributors make it even easier to find what you love and dive right in. Here are five key things you need to know about documentation but were probably afraid to ask.

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The paperwork for opening a business or getting unemployment benefits often feels like a game of red-light/green-light. For every bit of progress, you get pushed back to collect more documents or show those same documents to a different agency. That’s where OpenStack comes in, says Victor Lagunes, CIO, office of the president of Mexico. About 18 months ago, the Mexican government started on a path to consolidate a staggering 4,000 federal websites for 6,500 services into a single portal to rule them all.

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Hyper-V: Add Fibre Channel support
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Add generic RAID configuration spec for liberty
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Remove v3 from nova code tree
Alex Xu
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Be more explicit with our review policies.
Michael Still
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Neutron API evolution strategy
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Joe Gordon
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remove pagination effort
gordon chung
openstack/ceilometer-specs
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Cells instance migration
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Add event notification spec
Christian Schwede
openstack/swift-specs
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Add liberty priorities
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Add spec for transport key reference
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Add ironicclient version caching
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Patrick East
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openstack/cinder-specs
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fix wrong title for OS-INHERIT Extension spec
Guojian Shao
openstack/keystone-specs
Introduce flavor framework for services
mark mcclain
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Use os-brick library
Walter A. Boring IV (hemna)
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Federated domain identified by ``id`` not ``name``
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Removing JobExecutionArgument Table
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