@Manfred, great hint about the maven site plugin. I remember using it for 
another format in the past, but just got to know that it actually supports 
Markdown since release 3.3. First I though about using jekyll, just like 
GitHub. But the maven site plugin would be better integrated. Thanks!

@Jesse, I'll probably end up with a stub confluence page internally also, 
though I can foresee some resistance :-) btw, is there any documentation 
about the Jenkins release process behind the scenes? For example, when 
someone wants to contribute with a new plugin, a whole environment is 
created around it (github repo, confluence page, a jenkins job to build the 
plugin, Jira etc). Is everything triggered by scripts?


On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 5:40:02 PM UTC+1, Jesse Glick wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Rafael Rezende <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > I was thinking about introducing the documentation in 
> > markdown format directly from the Jenkins plugin itself. That is, an 
> extra 
> > doc folder in the plugin's source that will be part of the snapshot 
> (tag, 
> > revision, release.. you name it). This way, there is a direct 
> correlation 
> > between the source and the doc, devs feel motivated (or compelled) to 
> update 
> > docs accordingly 
>
> That is what I did in `workflow-plugin`, for reasons similar to those 
> you outline. 
>
> There was some discussion about this topic in the context of the 
> Jenkins 2.0 website. I was not really involved but IIRC there was 
> general agreement that it would be nice to have plugin documentation 
> maintained (a) in markup in SCM, rather than in a wiki, (b) in 
> per-plugin repositories rather than globally (meaning that the site 
> would somehow suck in conventionally-named files from other 
> repositories). Someone involved in this work should fill in details. 
>
> > you established that plugins 
> > without documentation in your confluence are to be considered 
> deprecated. 
>
> I think the rule was that they had to *have* a wiki page, and use that 
> as the `<url>` in `pom.xml`. But the wiki could merely be a stub 
> linking to the real docs. 
>

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