Fedora Package Maintainer Docs

Welcome! This is the Pagure instance for the Fedora Package Maintainer Docs.

The Pagure repository is used to store the source of Package Maintainer Docs, track related issues and accept changes via pull requests.

You can view the actual documentation here.

Documentation Development

Writing

Antora is used for managing the various documents which comprise the guidelines and integrating them into the rest of Fedora Documentation.

The guidelines themselves are written in AsciiDoc. Some useful information about AsciiDoc can be found below:

• AsciiDoc Syntax Quick Reference
• AsciiDoc Writer's Guide

Conventions and Preferences

This repository attempts to follow the following:

• Use Semantic Line Breaks to make diffing simpler.
• Prefer https://example.com[here] over link:https://example.com[here]
• Prefer [#some-ref] over [[some-ref]]

Submitting changes

The documentation is intended to be maintained collectively by all Fedora packagers.

Trivial changes, such as adding links or correcting typos, can be committed directly to the master branch. More substantial changes should be submitted through pull requests and be reviewed by another contributor before merging.

Due to technical issues, the packager group from the Fedora Account System cannot be granted access, so there is a dedicated Pagure group package-maintainer-docs with commit access. Membership is granted to authors of all merged pull request. Membership can also be requested by commenting on issue #23.

In case a pull request not reviewed in reasonable time, the following actions can be taken, in given order:

• Ask admins of this repository to take a look by tagging them on the pull reuqest.
• Ask on the devel mailing list why this repository is not responsive.

Local preview

This repo includes scripts to build and preview the contents of this repository.

NOTE: Please note that if you reference pages from other repositories, such links will be broken in this local preview as it only builds this repository. If you want to rebuild the whole Fedora Docs site, please see the Fedora Docs build repository for instructions.

Both scripts work on Fedora (using Podman) and macOS (using Docker).

To build and preview the site, run:

$ ./build.sh && ./preview.sh

The result will be available at http://localhost:8080

Checking links

To check for broken links, first install linkchecker: sudo dnf install linkchecker. Ensure that ./preview.sh is running, then in another terminal window run:

./check-links.sh

Installing Podman on Fedora

Fedora Workstation doesn't come with Podman preinstalled by default — so you might need to install it using the following command:

$ sudo dnf install podman

Preview as a part of the whole Fedora Docs site

You can also build the whole Fedora Docs site locally to see your changes in the whole context. This is especially useful for checking if your xref links work properly.

To do this, you need to clone the main Fedora Docs build repository, modify the site.yml file to reference a repo with your changes, and build it. Steps:

Clone the main repository and cd into it:

$ git clone https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/docs-fp-o.git
$ cd docs-fp-o

Find a reference to the repository you're changing in the site.yml file, and change it so it points to your change. So for example, if I made a modification to the Modularity docs, I would find:

...
   - url: https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/modularity.git
     branches:
       - master
...

And replaced it with a pointer to my fork:

...
   - url: https://pagure.io/forks/asamalik/fedora-docs/modularity.git
     branches:
       - master
...

I could also point to a local repository, using HEAD as a branch to preview the what's changed without the need of making a commit.

Note: I would need to move the repository under the docs-fp-o directory, because the builder won't see anything above. So I would need to create a repositories directory in docs-fp-o and copy my repository into it.

...
   - url: ./repositories/modularity
     branches:
       - HEAD
...

To build the whole site, I would run the following in the docs-fp-o directory.

$ ./build.sh && ./preview.sh