package-maintainer-docs/README.md

# Fedora Packaging Committee

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 packaging guidelines
[here](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/).

## Documentation Development

### Writing

[Antora](https://antora.org/) 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](https://asciidoc.org).
Some useful information about AsciiDoc can be found below:

* [AsciiDoc Syntax Quick Reference](https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-syntax-quick-reference/)
* [AsciiDoc Writer's Guide](https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-writers-guide/)

### Conventions and Preferences

This repository attempts to follow the following:

* Use [Semantic Line Breaks](http://sembr.org/) to make diffing simpler.
* Prefer `https://example.com[here]` over `link:https://example.com[here]`
* Prefer `[#some-ref]` over `[[some-ref]]`

### 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](https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/docs-fp-o/) 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

#### 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](https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/docs-fp-o),
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
```