Mike Billau created CB-5122:
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Summary: Document supported workflows
Key: CB-5122
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5122
Project: Apache Cordova
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Docs
Affects Versions: 3.1.0
Reporter: Mike Billau
Assignee: Mike Billau
Based on the recent discussion here[1], we should document the two different
supported Cordova workflows: using the CLI, and using plugman and bin scripts.
Some of this documentation already exists but needs to be clarified and
improved:
Overview guide --> "Development Paths" section[2]. This talks about getting
started with the CLI and then mentions that you can switch to the
platform-specific SDK tools. This section should be rewritten to make it clear
that there are two distinct workflows, and that both are okay and supported. It
could list out some pros and cons of each workflow (I'm sure we won't have any
trouble finding those ;)). It should be prescriptive in that users should be
following one of the two workflows, but it shouldn't make any statements about
which is better.
"The Command-line Interface" guide --> The "CLI workflow" guide. It generally
looks complete except for some missing functionality that is documented in the
CLI's README.md file (tests, hooks, some commands (serve), some merges info).
Platform Guides --> {Platform} --> {Platform} Command-line tools --> Each
platform has a "Command-line tools" doc that explains all of the command line
tools for that project and how to use them. We need to go through these guides
and verify that they are up to date and include all of the lower level command
line tools and scripts. It should read like a tutorial in the same way that the
Command-line Interface guide does.
"Using Plugman to Manage Plugins" [3] First, this guide needs to get exposed; I
can't find any way to get to this guide from the docs and even had to ask a
user how she managed to find it (a link from Plugman's readme!). This guide
needs to be expanded quite a bit; we can probably fold most/all of Plugman's
README.md file into this guide since it will be platform agnostic.
I think those are the only pieces in the docs that need to be changed.
[1] http://callback.markmail.org/thread/5nr7dgkquse4gdkl
[2] http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/guide_overview_index.md.html#Overview
[3]http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/plugin_ref_plugman.md.html
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