summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/doc/development/documentation.txt
blob: 957ca37bde1164f24a23c1166395e3686f4715ee (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
.. -*- mode: rst -*-

.. _development-documentation:

Documentation
=============

There are two parts of documentation in the Bcfg2 project:

* The wiki
* The manual


The wiki
--------
.. _Wiki: http://bcfg2.org
.. _Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/
.. _OpenID: https://openid.org/
.. _MCS: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/
.. _Argonne National Laboratory: http://www.anl.gov/

A python-based Trac_ instance is used for the Bcfg2 development
website. The Wiki_ part of the website can be edited after you
have successfully logged in. In order to login, a vaild OpenID
provider is needed. Please request your access to the Wiki_ on the
:ref:`help-mailinglist` or in the :ref:`help-irc`.


The manual
----------
.. _rst: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org
.. _Docutils:

The source for the manual is located in the ``doc/`` directory in the
git repository or in the source tarball. All files are written in
rst_ (ReStructuredText) format. Sphinx_ is used to build the
documentation from the restructured text sources.

Building the Manual
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

* Install the prerequisites.  Docutils_ and Sphinx_ are needed to build.

 * For Debian (Lenny) the tools are available in the `backports <http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructionst>`_ repository; installation can be done with the following::

    apt-get -t lenny-backports install python-sphinx

 * The needed tools for Fedora based systems are in the `Fedora Package Collection <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb>`_; installation can be done easily with Yum::

    yum -y install python-sphinx python-docutils

 * Additionally, to build the PDF version:

  * LaTeX
  * pdftex

* Download the source. Please refer to :ref:`source` for more details.

* Build the HTML version by running the following command in the
  top level of the source directory. The output will appear in
  ``build/sphinx/html``::

    python setup.py build_sphinx

* Building the PDF version ::

   python setup.py build_sphinx --builder=latex
   cd build/sphinx/latex
   make