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Nick Boldt commented on TOOLSDOC-492:
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OK, so a new approach...
using shell script to batch-convert a whole folder of docbook .xml files into .adoc files
(including images!):
Before:
Create new docs landing page on new
tools.jboss.org site (moving to
asciidoc for docs in process)
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Key: TOOLSDOC-492
URL:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TOOLSDOC-492
Project: Documentation for JBoss Tools and Developer Studio
Issue Type: Bug
Security Level: Public(Everyone can see)
Components: User Guide
Affects Versions: 4.2.0.Beta1
Reporter: Nick Boldt
Assignee: Michelle Murray
Fix For: 4.2.0.Beta2
With the release of the new
tools.jboss.org site, it's time to migrate the docs to
the same skin / format / markup. Docbook is dead, long live Asciidoc!
What [~mmurray] and I are thinking is that we would have a new landing page similar to
one of these:
http://tools.jboss.org/features/ (with icons that link to projects' latest doc)
or
http://tools.jboss.org/documentation/whatsnew/ (with the latest doc linked)
And then under that landing page we'd have doc for each of projects'
contributions to the User Guide, by milestone or Final release.
Questions:
a. [~maxandersen] [~burrsutter] [~mmusaji] Do we still need to provide 3 formats of doc -
HTML, HTML-single, and PDF? Or can we replace that with this new content, PLUS include
inline help doc within Eclipse? (That's another issue - see [~dgolovin] 's
https://github.com/dgolovin/jbosstools-eclipse-docs/blob/master/docs/scen... for
prototype)
b. [~maxandersen] Should we include docs for "dead" projects like Freemarker,
Portal, etc.? I'm guessing YES, even if the doc becomes out of date (ie., the doc for
JBT 4.2 for Freemarker won't have changed much (or at all) since JBT 4.0/4.1).
c. [~maxandersen] Should we convert old JBT 4.1.x (and/or 4.0.x, 3.3.x) doc to the new
adoc format, or just start w/ the JBT 4.2.0.Beta1/2 doc? I'd be OK with 4.1 and maybe
4.0, but can we skip 3.3 since JBDS 5 is no longer fully supported?
d. Will docbook2asciidoc [0] work for batch-converting docbook docs to adoc? @nick will
try. If conversion works easily, then converting older User Guides is definitely more
doable / less time consuming.
[0]
https://github.com/oreillymedia/docbook2asciidoc
e. [~xcoulon] Is :page-component_version: still used, eg., in [1], or is the filename
version itself used to categorize the content by milestone?
[1]
https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-website/blob/master/documentatio...
f. If we decide to continue to include other formats (eg., html-single, pdf) should we
link to those from these places [2], [3]?
[2]
http://tools.jboss.org/downloads/overview.html
[3]
http://tools.jboss.org/downloads/jbosstools/luna/4.2.0.Beta1.html