[Development] New branch in qtdoc for Qt 5.0 documentation brush-up (update)

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Update to documentatin and branches.

Fredag 5. oktober 2012 09.15.48 skrev Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt:
> On 10/04/2012 05:21 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > On Thursday, October 04, 2012 17:06:08 Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt wrote:
> >> If
> >> you are working on changes to the qtdoc repository, could you please
> >> move it over to "newdocs" branch so we can minimize conflicts?
> > 
> > Excuse my circular logic, but if everyone should commit to newdocs and no
> > one should commit to master, let's delete the master branch entirely,
> > rename newdocs to master and work there instead. That way, we we're done
> > with this complicated branch issue before the newdocs branch was even
> > created.
> > 
> > In other words: Why create a branch at all?


We had Tor Arne volunteering to make the build of the modularized 
documentation properly (awesome).
He now spent some time fixing the build and voila, we will have properly 
modularized documentation that can do two pass runs and will work nicely for 
everyone (we hope ;) ).

In order not to mess up the beta 2 docs completely (we don't know if we get 
done in time), we created a "newdocs" branch in every repo now.

The plan is to update and fix all the overview documentation in these branches 
and getting rid of the modularized doc building left-overs. Instead we will 
have it properly working from toplevel qt5.git.


Building docs
=============
in the qt5.git repo (with the other modules checked out and configure run) run 
"make docs"
Run "make docs" again to get all links right.



Since this is pretty disruptive, we'll wait until the new documentation and 
the new way of building it is somewhat usable. In the mean time, if you want 
to work on overview docs (qdoc files, not inline documentation in the code), 
it would be great if you used the newdocs branches.

Greetings
Frederik


> 
> This is most likely just poor communication on my part.
> 
> The "newdocs" branch is a topic branch where we can break the current
> documentation without delaying the next beta. If you have changes that
> need to go into the beta, they can be put in the master branch and we
> will deal with any potential conflicts when they appear, but if they do
> not, and especially if you are participating in the Qt 5 documentation
> clean-up, it would be great if you could commit to "newdocs" so we
> working against the same version of the code.
> 
> The main conflicts we're worried about now is work on pages that are
> deleted in the new structure for instance or duplicate work, which would
> become much more visible if everyone working to make the Qt 5
> documentation great are on the same branch.
> 
> The branch will go away and be merged into master once its contents are
> considered usable, so this is in no way meant to be a permanent
> solution. Hopefully that will not take too long.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eskil
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