Comparison for current Tools
Characteristic | Proposed for ONAP | Example from OPNFV | Current ONAP & Examples | Other Option or Examples |
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Documentation Source Repo Host | gerrit.onap.org | gerrit.openfv.org | All documentation is on the wiki.onap.org as pages or attached reference documents in PDF form. Wiki contains more than release documentation | also could be sourced by gerrit or other git tools Maybe we could create a onap.github.org |
Documentation Source Repo Structure | /docs - Top level documentation index & /<any other project repo>/docs - documentation sub-directories of both of the above reflect the |
| Subset of the links on wiki.onap.org | Same |
Source Format | Comments (gg2147@att.com) Pros
Cons
| Top Level Index Page | Multiple Requiring Commercial Software | Comments (gg2147@att.com) Pros
Cons
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Published Documentation | HTML, PDF, Epub for all documentation at onap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ | HTML or PDF depending on the document or topic | HTML at github.org(no need to build) other documentation by jekyll. | |
CI/CD Flow | Committer approved change merged to doc or other project/doc repository branch triggers a verify & build of published documentation. | Top level index reference to other project release notes and creation of a composite source document set | Manually updated for a release by collecting information from projects eg. Release Notes 1.0.0 draft | For Markdown. Committer approved change merged to doc or other project/doc repository branch, no building progres, the webpage will be refreshed in seconds For PDF or other form, same with RST. |
CI/CD Tools | Gerrit, Jira, Tox, Jenkins, Sphinx | Gerrit,Jira, Jekyll. No need any CI tools, just use the github.org to gerenrate a webpage. |
Option Summary | Option 1 | Option 2 |
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Language | ReStructured Text | Markdown |
Site Generator | Sphinx | Jekyll |
Publish | ReadTheDocs | GitHub |
Comparison for more Opensource Documentation Projects
Company Name | Document Project | Project Type | Open Source License | Document Library Management | SCM | Develop Language | Language Style | Review | Bug Tracking | Compile Tool | Translation Process | Release Method | CI Tool | Release Cycle | Release Form | Other Supporting Tools | Search Implementation |
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NASA And Rackspace | openstack | Open source project | Apache 2.0 | Open library | Git | rst | -- | PR/Review meeting/Docking internal bug tracking system | issues/JIRA | Sphinx | Independent branch | Offline CI | www-generator.py publishdocs.sh | Released with product release | Website/pdf | R & D document generation tool?contains terminology tools? | ? |
Microsoft | Microsoft Azure | Open source project | MIT | Open library + Private library | Git/Github | Markdown | DFM | PR | PR/Labels Automation bot tracking building and Bug | DocFX | Independent branch | Offline CI | DocFX | Every day | Website | DocFX | ? |
Google-Tensorflow | Open source project | Apache License 2.0 | Open library + Private library | Git/Github | Markdown | GFM | issues | issues | Website generator+doxygen | ? | Offline CI | g3doc website generator | ? | Website | API automatic generation tool, gen_docs.sh, text processing tools | Borrow Google website search | |
Google-Kubernetes | Open source project | Apache License 2.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 | Open library + Private library | Git/Github | Markdown | GFM | PR/issues | issues | Jekyll | ? | Online | Jekyll | ? | websites | ? | ? | |
Google-GCP | Closed source project | ? | Private library | Internal git | markdown | ? | ? | ? | g3doc | ? | Offline | ? | ? | website | ? | ? | |
sencha | Extjs | Closed source project | ? | Private library | Git/Github | Markdown | ? | ? | ? | JsDuck | ? | Offline | ? | ? | website | ? | ? |
StackExchange | Stackoverflow | Closed source project | ? | ? | Git/Github | Markdown | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Online | ? | ? | website | ? | ? |
Amazon | AWS | Closed source project | ? | All open(only Developer guide) | Git/Github | rst | ? | ? | ? | Sphinx | ? | Offline CI | build_docs.py | ? | website | ? | ? |
Labs126 | Closed source project | ? | ? | Git/Github | Markdown | GFM | ? | ? | Jekyll | ? | Offline CI | ? | ? | website | ? | ? | |
Docker | docker | Open source project | ? | Open library + Private library | Github | Markdown | GFM | ? | ? | hugo | ? | ? | ? | ? | website | ? | ? |
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Sphinx | Sphinx | Open source project | BSD | ? | ? | rst/markdown | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Offline | sphinx cli | ? | website/Apple Help/ePub/LaTex/text/manual page (unix)/Textinfo/linkcheck builder/c++ domain | ? | ? |
Github | Gitbook | Open source project | Apache 2.0 | ? | ? | md/ascii text | GFM | ? | ? | ? | ? | Offline | gitbook cli | ? | website/pdf/epub/mobi | ? | ? |
Github | Closed source project | ? | All open | Git/Github | ? | ? | PR/issues | ? | Jekyll | ? | Online | Jekyll | ? | ? | Jekyll-Auth | ? |
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