rh-tokeefe/modular-docs

Modular Documentation Project provides guidelines and examples for writing technical documentation using a modular framework.

The Modular Documentation Project Source Repository

Modular Documentation Reference Guide

The Modular Documentation Reference Guide contains the essential information to start writing documentation in a modular way. You can view the latest build of the guide here:

https://redhat-documentation.github.io/modular-docs/

Modular Documentation Template Files

Another deliverable for this project is the module templates for the various module types. All the module template files for writing new modular content can be found here:

https://github.com/redhat-documentation/modular-docs/tree/master/modular-docs-manual/files

What is the Purpose of the Modular Documentation Project?

To provide documentation teams with a set of resources to assist them as they write user-driven content or convert their current documentation framework to a modular-based documentation framework.

Why Are We Doing This?

To help the documentation teams become more agile with their documentation. This agility will help us to better serve our readers with a more purposeful reading experience. A modular-based content model sets a foundation for innovation. Modular documentation provides a structure for writing and presenting user-story-based documentation. User-story-based documentation attempts to address the reader's needs more than focusing on feature-based documentation. User-story-based documentation also helps the documentation teams with the amount of documents that they have to maintain, by helping them to focus on what really matters.

Any Suggestions or Questions?

Please submit an issue to this project.

Repository Structure

This repository uses the following directory structure:

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├── .travis.yml (YAML configuration file for Travis CI)
├── CONTRIBUTING.md (How do I contribute to this project?)
├── README.md (this file)
├── modular-docs-manual/ (Another book)
    ├── README.md (the README file)
    ├── master.adoc (master layout of the book)
    ├── content/
        ├── topics/
            └── *.adoc (AsciiDoc files)
        └── modular-doc-manual.adoc
    ├── files/ (template files)
    ├── images (image files)
    └── common-content
        └── attributes.adoc (common attributes)

Contributing

We welcome contributions from everyone who feels they have something of value that all of the community can benefit from. Follow these instructions to start contributing: CONTRIBUTING.

License

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Building the Books Locally

When you make changes to these books, it is a good practice to do a local test build to verify the book builds successfully and renders as you expect before you submit the merge request back to upstream master.

Configuring the Build Environment

You can build the book locally using AsciiDoctor.

Building the Modular Documentation Reference Guide

To build and view the document locally, run:

$ asciidoctor modular-docs-manual/master.adoc
$ <www-browser-of-choice> modular-docs-manual/master.html