+1. Mono-repo-> easier to manage.

Thanks,
Hiromu

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 8:52 PM Brandon Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> > >
> >
>

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