[hibernate-dev] Hibernate documentation on GitHub

Steve Ebersole steve at hibernate.org
Thu Nov 19 09:50:57 EST 2015


That means some form of customized rendering hooks in both DocBook
(jDocBook) and Asciidoctor for that to happen, as during rendering is the
only time we really understand the correlation between source and rendered
output (assuming a mapping from local doc source file to GitHub url).

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 8:34 AM Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I didn't know of GitBook before.
>
> I was thinking if we can embed links in the jboss.org/hibernate
> documentation to the actual branch/documentation-file in Github.
> Something like a side arrow that, when being clicked, it can navigate to
> the GitHub page hosting the actual file that rendered this HTML resource.
>
> This way, the user can:
>
> - suggest typos or corrections
> - try to add suggestions, through pull-rquests
> - add comments to something that's not clear for them
>
> What do you think?
>
> Vlad
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Vlad, back to your original question...  What specifically did you mean?
>> Are you talking about something like
>> https://github.com/integrations/gitbook ?
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:39 PM Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:30 PM Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 02:36:13PM +0000, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>>>> > I think it makes sense to host these on hibernate.org *after* we
>>>> figure out
>>>> > the version-specific content issues I brought up in Barcelona.
>>>>
>>>> What issues are you talking about. I know you want to link to different
>>>> versions of the documentation from hibernate.org. AFAIK you already
>>>> started
>>>> with it and made some progress.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I made progress on version-specific documentation.  But there is really
>>> all kinds of version-specific data-points on the website in addition to
>>> documentation.  Rather than me cobbling it together piecemeal for each data
>>> point, I proposed that we consider an overall strategy for version specific
>>> information on the website.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> > However, I am kind of torn.  Unless I misunderstand that would mean
>>>> moving
>>>> > the sources out of the upstream projects into the hibernate.org git
>>>> repo.
>>>>
>>>> Really, why is that?
>>>>
>>>
>>> What's the other option?  Keeping it upstream, building the docs and
>>> somehow pushing those built artifacts into the hibernate.org git repo?
>>> Or do y'all mean defining a scp/ftp/rsync dir on the actual box?  Because
>>> today we seem to strive for scriptable rebuilding...
>>>
>>>
>


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