I like this idea too. +1 from me. Brandon
On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 12:53 PM Matt Casters <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 from me as well Hans. It's a great idea. Sometimes I think it's better > to just do the work in the short term to avoid the accumulated pain over > time. > I certainly didn't have a lot of fun updating docs in the source code > (plugin information) along with their navigation and index pages in the > docs and so on. > What you propose would solve most of the issues I was having. > Cheers, > Matt > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 6:56 PM Hans Van Akelyen < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > When we started this project we started with a separate documentation > > repository [1]. > > > > While this seemed a great idea at the time I would like to come back to > > this subject. I would like to propose to merge our documentation to our > > source code repository. > > > > There are three main advantages: > > - Single source for releases > > - Simpler testing > > - More advanced asciidoc features > > > > When creating a release we will automatically have a branch that contains > > the documentation that is valid for that release, at this point in time > > this is a non-issue as we are not yet creating versions of our > > documentation and everything is still aligned, but when we move forward > > parts of the documentation will become deprecated or linked to a specific > > version. > > > > If we single source our documentation we can include a basic version of > our > > documentation website to our code repository this will make it simpler to > > see what the end result will look like. It allows you to do changes in an > > adoc file and instantly see the new version in a browser the same way it > > will be represented on the website. > > > > Asciidoc has features where you can include snippets/classes/methods of > > your source code in your documentation, they are dynamically linked. This > > means that if the method changes the docs will be updated instantly. > Though > > we would have to test if these features work in our current setup this > can > > be a great addition to our developer documentation. > > > > As always this mail is to gather feedback and your opinion on the matter > > before we start changing things. > > > > Cheers, > > Hans > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-hop-docs > > >
