We currently do it for the trunk build: <target name="hudson-test-trunk" depends="docs,tar,findbugs"/>
but not for pull request or patch QA: <target name="qa-test-pullrequest" depends="findbugs.check,forrest.check"> "forrest.check" only checks if the forrest.home variable is defined. Is that enough that we run it as part of the trunk build? -Flavio > On 01 Dec 2016, at 01:04, Benjamin Reed <br...@apache.org> wrote: > > we could also build the doc as part of the tests. > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Flavio Junqueira <f...@apache.org> wrote: >> As part of the release process, we only copy the documentation, see it here: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/HowToRelease >> <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/HowToRelease> >> >> I think the reason we have gone this way is to avoid issues compiling the >> documentation at the time that we are preparing a release candidate or after >> voting on a release candidate. We could for sure build the documentation >> right before generating the first rc for a release and create blocker jiras >> in the case there is any issue. >> >> -Flavio >> >>> On 30 Nov 2016, at 23:12, Benjamin Reed <br...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> yeah, that's a deeper question. pat or flavio can correct me on this, >>> but i think the reason we check it in is so that the website's "trunk" >>> documentation will work. now that we moved to git, i don't thing it >>> works though... i also would just like to only build it when we do >>> releases. >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Jordan Zimmerman >>> <jor...@jordanzimmerman.com> wrote: >>>> I wondered about that myself. Why bother building the docs? Isn’t that >>>> only needed for packaging/deployment? It ends up making PRs ugly because >>>> you have all the unnecessary docs in the diff. >>>> >>>> -Jordan >>>> >>>>> On Nov 30, 2016, at 11:23 PM, Benjamin Reed <br...@apache.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> when we commit pull requests with doc changes, i think we should >>>>> commit the generated doc as a separate commit. what do you all think? >>>>> i would like to do that to keep the change from the contributors >>>>> pristine :) and i think it simplifies things a bit. >>>>> >>>>> ben >>>> >>