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author | GitLab Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com> | 2019-10-11 06:06:27 +0000 |
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committer | GitLab Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com> | 2019-10-11 06:06:27 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/development/documentation/index.md b/doc/development/documentation/index.md index 4ad24d08d17..a5b47b3a5c0 100644 --- a/doc/development/documentation/index.md +++ b/doc/development/documentation/index.md @@ -8,19 +8,18 @@ GitLab's documentation is [intended as the single source of truth (SSOT)](https: In addition to this page, the following resources can help you craft and contribute documentation: -- [Style Guide](styleguide.md) - What belongs in the docs, language guidelines, and more. +- [Style Guide](styleguide.md) - What belongs in the docs, language guidelines, Markdown standards to follow, and more. - [Structure and template](structure.md) - Learn the typical parts of a doc page and how to write each one. - [Workflows](workflow.md) - A landing page for our key workflows: - [Documentation process for feature changes](feature-change-workflow.md) - Adding required documentation when developing a GitLab feature. - [Documentation improvement workflow](improvement-workflow.md) - New content not associated with a new feature. -- [Markdown Guide](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/technical-writing/markdown-guide/) - A reference for the markdown implementation used by GitLab's documentation site and about.gitlab.com. -- [Site architecture](site_architecture/index.md) - How docs.gitlab.com is built. +- [Markdown Guide](../../user/markdown.md) - A reference for all markdown syntax supported by GitLab. +- [Site architecture](site_architecture/index.md) - How <http://docs.gitlab.com> is built. ## Source files and rendered web locations -Documentation for GitLab, GitLab Runner, and Omnibus is published to [docs.gitlab.com](https://docs.gitlab.com). Documentation for GitLab is also published within the application at `/help` on the domain of the GitLab instance. - -At `/help`, only help for your current edition and version is included. Help for other versions is available at docs.gitlab.com. +Documentation for GitLab, GitLab Runner, Omnibus GitLab and Charts are published to <https://docs.gitlab.com>. Documentation for GitLab is also published within the application at `/help` on the domain of the GitLab instance. +At `/help`, only help for your current edition and version is included. Help for other versions is available at <https://docs.gitlab.com/archives/>. The source of the documentation exists within the codebase of each GitLab application in the following repository locations: @@ -29,6 +28,7 @@ The source of the documentation exists within the codebase of each GitLab applic | [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/) | [`/doc`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/tree/master/doc) | | [GitLab Runner](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/) | [`/docs`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/tree/master/docs) | | [Omnibus GitLab](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/) | [`/doc`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/tree/master/doc) | +| [Charts](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/charts/gitlab) | [`/doc`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/charts/gitlab/tree/master/doc) | Documentation issues and merge requests are part of their respective repositories and all have the label `Documentation`. @@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ See the [Structure](styleguide.md#structure) section of the [Documentation Style Changing a document's location requires specific steps to ensure that users can seamlessly access the new doc page, whether they are accessing content -on a GitLab instance domain at `/help` or at docs.gitlab.com. Be sure to ping a -GitLab technical writer if you have any questions during the process (such as +on a GitLab instance domain at `/help` or at <https://docs.gitlab.com>. Be sure to assign a +technical writer if you have any questions during the process (such as whether the move is necessary), and ensure that a technical writer reviews this change prior to merging. @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ land on the doc via `/help`. If the documentation page being relocated already has Disqus comments, we need to preserve the Disqus thread. -Disqus uses an identifier per page, and for docs.gitlab.com, the page identifier +Disqus uses an identifier per page, and for <https://docs.gitlab.com>, the page identifier is configured to be the page URL. Therefore, when we change the document location, we need to preserve the old URL as the same Disqus identifier. @@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ Every GitLab instance includes the documentation, which is available at `/help` (`https://gitlab.example.com/help`). For example, <https://gitlab.com/help>. There are [plans](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/693) to end this -practice and instead link out from the GitLab application to docs.gitlab.com URLs. +practice and instead link out from the GitLab application to <https://docs.gitlab.com> URLs. -The documentation available online on docs.gitlab.com is continuously +The documentation available online on <https://docs.gitlab.com> is continuously deployed every hour from the `master` branch of GitLab, Omnibus, and Runner. Therefore, once a merge request gets merged, it will be available online on the same day. However, they will be shipped (and available on `/help`) within the milestone assigned @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ available online on 2018-09-15, but, as the feature freeze date has passed, if the MR does not have a "pick into 11.3" label, the milestone has to be changed to 11.4 and it will be shipped with all GitLab packages only on 2018-10-22, with GitLab 11.4. Meaning, it will only be available under `/help` from GitLab -11.4 onwards, but available on docs.gitlab.com on the same day it was merged. +11.4 onwards, but available on <https://docs.gitlab.com/archives/> on the same day it was merged. ### Linking to `/help` @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ For example, [GitLab.com's `/help`](https://gitlab.com/help). ## Docs site architecture See the [Docs site architecture](site_architecture/index.md) page to learn -how we build and deploy the site at [docs.gitlab.com](https://docs.gitlab.com) and +how we build and deploy the site at <https://docs.gitlab.com> and to review all the assets and libraries in use. ### Global navigation @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ You will need to push a branch to those repositories, it doesn't work for forks. The `review-docs-deploy*` job will: -1. Create a new branch in the [gitlab-docs](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-docs) +1. Create a new branch in the [`gitlab-docs`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-docs) project named after the scheme: `$DOCS_GITLAB_REPO_SUFFIX-$CI_ENVIRONMENT_SLUG`, where `DOCS_GITLAB_REPO_SUFFIX` is the suffix for each product, e.g, `ce` for CE, etc. |