+1 for me too. Much easier to be maintained.

Sergio Ramazzina
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> Il giorno 10 apr 2021, alle ore 18:56, Hans Van Akelyen 
> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> 
> 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

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