[GitHub] [tvm-rfcs] hogepodge commented on a change in pull request #27: Formalize TVM Documentation Organization

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hogepodge commented on a change in pull request #27:
URL: https://github.com/apache/tvm-rfcs/pull/27#discussion_r703939881



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+- Feature Name: `Formalize TVM Documentation Organization`
+- Start Date: 2021-09-01
+- RFC PR: [apache/tvm-rfcs#0027](https://github.com/apache/tvm-rfcs/pull/0027)
+- GitHub Issue: [apache/tvm#00xx](https://github.com/apache/tvm/issues/0000)
+
+# Summary
+[summary]: #summary
+
+This RFC proposes a refactoring of TVM documentation. The goal of this refactor
+is to create a document architecture that classifies four major documentation types:
+
+* Tutorials,
+* How-tos,
+* Deep Dives,
+* and Reference
+
+then organizes the documents them based on those types. The desired result is
+to make it easier for entire TVM community, to easily find documentation to
+meet their needs, whether they are new users or experienced users. Another goal
+is to make it easier for the development community to contribute to the TVM
+documentation. It recognizes that while in most communities there is a distinct
+divide between the user and the developer communities, there can be significant
+overlap given the nature of TVM as an optimizing compiler.
+
+# Motivation
+[motivation]: #motivation
+
+TVM has seen an explosion of growth since it was released as an open source project,
+and formally grauated as an official Apache Software Foundation project. The vision of
+the Apache TVM Project is to host a "diverse community of experts and
+practitioners in machine learning, compilers, and systems architecture to build
+an accessible, extensible, and automated open-source framework that optimizes
+current and emerging machine learning models for any hardware platform."
+
+The TVM community has done an excellent job in producing a wide range of documents to describe
+how to successfully install, use, and develop for TVM. The documenation project grew with
+the community, to address the immediate needs of the developer community. However, one
+consistent piece of feedback is that the documentation is difficult to navigate, with beginner
+material mixed in with advanced material. As a result, it can be difficult for new users
+to find the exact information they need, and can work against the vision of the project.
+
+This RFC aims to refactor the organization of the TVM docs, loosely following the [formal
+documentation style described by Divio](https://documentation.divio.com). This system has been chosen
+because it is a:
+
+> "simple, comprehensive and nearly universally-applicable scheme. It is proven
+> in practice across a wide variety of fields and applications."
+
+This RFC is primarily concerned with the organization of the documents, and not
+the content. As such, the implementation of this RFC would move documents, and
+only create new documents as top-level placeholders, indexes, and documentation
+about the system itself.
+
+
+# Guide-level explanation
+[guide-level-explanation]: #guide-level-explanation
+
+## The Four Document Types
+
+### Introductory Tutorials
+
+These are step by step guides to introduce new users to a project. A successful
+introductory tutorial successfully get the user engaged with the software
+without necessarily explaining why the software works the way it does. Those
+explanations can be saved for other document types; the introductory tutorial
+focuses on a successful first experience. These are the most important docs to
+turning newcomers into new users and developers. A fully end-to-end tutorial,
+from installing TVM and supporting ML software, to creating and training a
+model, to compiling to different architectures will give a new user the
+opportunity to use TVM in the most efficient way possible.
+
+Tutorials need to be repeatable and reliable, because the lack of success means
+a user will look for other solutions.
+
+### How-to Guides
+
+These are step by step guides on how to solve particular problems. The user can
+ask meaningful questions, and the documents provide answers. An examples of
+this type of document might be, “how do I compile an optimized model for ARM
+architecture?” or “how do I compile and optimize a TensorFlow model?” These
+documents should be open enough that a user could see how to apply it to a new
+use case. Practical usability is more important than completeness. The title
+should tell the user what problem the how-to is solving.
+
+How are tutorials different from how-tos? A tutorial is oriented towards the
+new developer, and focuses on successfully introducing them to the software and
+community. A how-to in contrast focuses on accomplishing a specific task within
+the context of basic understanding. A tutorial helps to onboard, a how-to helps

Review comment:
       The primary difference is a how-to requires basic prior knowledge of the software, and answers a question that user would have. A tutorial assumes no knowledge, and is meant show a user what they can accomplish with the software.




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