On 12/11/2013 08:36 PM, Jay Vyas wrote:
Hi bigtop!
Just curious because don't see any substantial contents in the docbook
yet, so wondering how it will evolve. Where will they go and how should
the bigtop folks contribute to them? I'm dont know much about docbook
and how docbookX is meant to be used here, but it looks like a cool way
to propogate docs in the code.
Right now, there is no content :)
The way it works is:
* src/site/docbookx/apache-bigtop-user-guide.xml is the main entry point
to the user guide. If we were to add another guide, we would simply
create another similar file in that directory.
* You could put the entire document in that file
apache-bigtop-user-guide.xml only, but for obvious reasons I split it in
multiple files and import them through xi:include.
* Therefore each chapter of the user guide can be found in
src/site/docbookx/userguide/. If a chapter gets too big, we could always
split it again in multiple files
So any contribution should mostly go into one of the file dedicated to a
chapter.
Regarding the content itself, in order to keep it organized I have put
together a proposal for the list of chapters.
See my email about the documentation overhaul.
My plan is to add information here and there according to the list of
chapters. I don't see any reason to work chapter by chapter.
So feel free to pick a chapter or a section and start sending patches.
Try to keep them small so they can be reviewed without too much troubles
and also less chance for having patch stepping on each others. Also
english is not my mother tongue, so I don't mind patches improving
sentences.
So my main recommendation is to stick with the plan. Beyond that, any
part is fair game if you want to contribute a paragraph or even just a
sentence. Any help is welcome!
I will also volunteer to push the website on a regular basis so changes
becomes visible without too much delay.
Thanks,
Bruno
