[ceph-users] DocuBetter Meeting 1AM UTC Thursday 27 May 2021

A DocuBetter meeting is scheduled for later this week at 11AM AEST Thursday, which is 6PM PDT Wednesday and 9PM EDT Wednesday (and 1AM UTC). It's a pretty inconveniently scheduled meeting. Last month I sent an email reporting that this monthly meeting, on account of its inconvenient time, is not much attended. That email provoked good, helpful correspondence, so I'm doing it again. Unless I get responses to this email thread that request that I hold the meeting this week, I'm not going to hold it. This email is a sincere request for documentation complaints. If anything about the documentation irritates you, now's the time to tell me. If anything about the documentation is incomplete or incorrect, I'm the guy you should tell. You don't have to attend the DocuBetter Meetings to get changes into the documentation, you just have to ask me and explain clearly what needs to be changed. The documentation initiatives that were underway last month remain underway sedulously, if not apace. I am cleaning the syntax of the entire documentation suite (a multi-month project that is as tedious as it sounds... I am currently in the middle of the cephadm documentation). I am also planning to consolidate the Intro Guide and part of the Developer Guide, because there is some overlap in those sections. I've also begun indexing the Ceph-related videos on Youtube. This means that I watch the videos with a pencil in my hand, and I write down short summaries of what's being discussed along with the number of minutes and seconds that have passed since the video began. Over the past two weeks I have found myself with command of the context and understanding necessary to appreciate Sage's one-hour-and-twenty-seven-minute marathon "Intro to Ceph" talk from June 2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmLPbrf-x9g). I'm not sure that a video six minutes longer than "Toy Story" can be considered an intro, but it is an impressive rhetorical performance by Sage, who speaks authoritatively and concisely on every subject he touches as he provides a tour of all the major components of Ceph. Anyway: If someone responds to this email and says that their lives would be improved if I hold the DocuBetter meeting, then I will hold the meeting. However, if by twelve hours before the time of the meeting no one has responded, there will be no DocuBetter meeting. Remember: even if no one wants to have the meeting this week, this does not mean that you can't get changes into the docs. Write to me anytime with your complaints. No complaint is too crude, no irritation will be summarily dismissed. That's it. Here are the links relevant to DocuBetter Meetings: Meeting: https://bluejeans.com/908675367 Etherpad: https://pad.ceph.com/p/Ceph_Documentation