Thank you for looking at this, Robert. I'll take a look at MarkDown solutions as well.
Cheers! Clay -- "My religion is simple. My religion is kindness." - HH The Dalai Lama of Tibet > On May 21, 2014, at 2:24 AM, Robert Meyer <rme...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've been asked to look at a way to automate the FOP release process with > regards the website documentation. At the moment every new release requires > the following: > > 1) Download the site from SVN > 2) Copy the folder containing the latest version's markdown files (1.1 for > example) and rename to the new version > 3) Go through all the files manually and update all the references from the > old to the new version > 4) Update any markdown files in the main directory with regard to the current > and previous versions. > 5) Delete the oldest version folder as we need only mantain the last 3. > 6) Check and resubmit all files back to SVN > > My initial thought would to have a master copy in a separate directory. That > copy would contain a tag in place where the version is given which could be > substituted by a script of some kind (ant has a facility to do this). The ant > script would also perform all of the above tasks so the only thing left to > the user will be to check the output and push the new files. The problem I > have with this is that SVN is not the only way in which the files can be > edited as there is the web interface. If someone were to edit the files from > there, the master copies would become out of date and worse, if someone were > to perform a release it would overwrite all those changes. > > I've been recommended to look at markdown extensions but if anyone else has > any ideas on the best way to go about this it would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Robert Meyer
