I took the liberty of testing the idea out.

Here's our docs as built from the most recent commits in Sqoop2 branch:
http://sqoop2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Including, for example, instructions on how to load external connectors.

Now if we'll iterate on making the docs look better, it will actually
be visible :)

Gwen

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gwen,
>
> This seems like a cool idea. We can also make the docs look much cleaner
> for this as well.
>
> -Abe
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Gwen Shapira <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sqoopers,
>>
>> I think we all agree that while our docs are useful, they can use some
>> improvement - not just in terms of content, but also in terms of
>> style, usefulness and the process around updating them.
>>
>> Right now, docs are updated in trunk when we add new features
>> (usually), but these updates are not posted anywhere - so if someone
>> builds from trunk, they have to build the docs and use them locally.
>>
>> When we do a release, we build the docs, copy the result into SVN and
>> push this to our website.
>>
>> Looks a bit clunky to me :)
>>
>> I found a nice project called that can help: https://readthedocs.org/
>>
>> This is a documentation hosting site that supports git, supports
>> sphinx, and allows tagging and versioning of the documentation.
>>
>> Looks like it can improve our process and make things easier for us
>> and our users.
>>
>> What do you guys think?
>> Any other suggestions on how to make docs better?
>>
>> Gwen
>>

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