Hi all,

A while back I set up an account with Read the Docs, a free service
for converting reStructuredText documents to HTML and PDF using
Sphinx, and for hosting these files online. I currently keep the
source files at https://github.com/rmzelle/writing, with the rendered
documentation available at docs.citationstyles.org. So far it hosts
our documentation on locale files, and a rewritten version of the CSL
primer.

I'm now considering migrating all long-form CSL documentation from
citationstyles.org/downloads/... to docs.citationstyles.org. This
would affect the CSL specification, primer, and release notes. Unless
people suggest otherwise, I'm planning to:

- move the existing source files at https://github.com/rmzelle/writing
to https://github.com/citation-style-language/documentation.
- adapt the existing source files at
https://github.com/citation-style-language/documentation for rendering
through Read the Docs.

This move would have several advantages:

* http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html is currently
generated with https://bitbucket.org/fbennett/rst4csl, a custom Python
script Frank wrote. So far, I always had to run the script locally,
and upload the generated HTML to citationstyles.org by hand. In
contrast, Read the Docs offers GitHub integration, so documentation is
automatically regenerated after every commit.
* the "/downloads/" path was always a bit weird.
http://docs.citationstyles.org/... is much nicer.
* Read the Docs has support for GitHub branches, so we could offer
rendered versions for each CSL release, and the master development
branch. The main drawback is that we're stuck with long URLs like
http://docs.citationstyles.org/en/latest/primer.html. The alternative
is giving up branch support, which would shorten the URLs to
http://docs.citationstyles.org/primer.html (see
https://docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/single_version.html).

Best,

Rintze

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