[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (TOOLSDOC-492) Create new docs landing page on new tools.jboss.org site (moving to asciidoc for docs in process)

[Michelle Murray (JIRA)]

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Michelle Murray commented on TOOLSDOC-492:
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Looks really good!

Some pointers:
* Procedures now have numbered steps - great
* Substeps (and presumably alternative steps) have lost their numbering (e.g., Connect to OpenShift step 7) - can we do anything about this?
* Bullet lists are now also numbered - need to revert this back to just being bullets (e.g., lists in About OpenShift, About OpenShift Tools, Features Overview)
* Note and Important admonitions now have a table-ish format - these looked pretty cool before with the grey line on the LHS, can we revert to that?
* Under 'View output from the OpenShift server' the text should be one para but has been split into a para and the unformatted text in a grey box (similarly under 'Forward remote ports') - need to fix this

> 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
>
>         Attachments: openshift-chapter-generated-epub.png, openshift-chapter-generated-pdf.png
>
>
> 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/scenarios.md 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/documentation/whatsnew/openshift/openshift-news-2.6.0.Beta1.adoc
> 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



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