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EuroLinux

About Documentation

This is EuroLinux community-driven documentation.

We welcome your contributions to EuroLinux!

You can:

Info

As EuroLinux is in Open Core model there are also additional documentation for our customer that are available at EuroLinux Support Portal.

Info

You can find our online Enterprise Linux Man pages server here https://man.docs.euro-linux.com.

How documentation is organized?

Documentation is organized in the following manner:

  • JumpStarts - Installation guides with extras
  • HowTo - How To guides on various topics
  • Release Notes

How to contribute

We love your input! We value transparent and easy to contribute projects, that's why we choose GitHub. You can contribute to this project with:

  • Proposing a new topic that should be described
  • Discussing the current state of the docs
  • Reporting a bug
  • Submitting a fix

We Use GitHub with GitHub Flow. All changes are made through pull requests.

Pull requests are the best and well-established way to propose changes. The GitHub Flow that allows us to provide reviews and discussion about documentation/code is described in detail here.

Use our specially crafted issue templates: EuroLinux Open Docs issue from a template to contribute a topic you would like to see.

If you want to contribute with code (we keep documentation as code), do the following:

  1. Fork the repository and create your own branch from master.
  2. It would be great if you could test your changes with mkdocs (described in detail in Setup environment locally)
  3. Write/Apply your changes and commit to your branch.
  4. Create a pull request!

GitHub Labs

If you are new to Git VCS (Version Control System) or GitHub, you can visit GitHub Learning Lab, especially First Day on GitHub course. GitHub courses are free, interactive and put stress on practical aspects.

Tools

We are using mkdocs with mkdocs-material to build and style our documentation.

Setup environment locally

Because MkDocs is Python based, you need at least these installed to run this documentation locally:

  • python3 (3.6+)
  • pip
  • virtualenv

First, let's create a virtualenv, so you don't bloat your system-wide python environment: 

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv

Then activate virtualenv

Bash: 

. venv/bin/activate

Fish: 

. venv/bin/activate.fish

Now you are ready to install MkDocs and other Python packages: 

pip install -r requirements.txt

After it serving documentation on your host is as easy as running: 

mkdocs serve

To build documentation invoke: 

mkdocs build

It will build documentation and save it into site directory

Please don't include site directory in pull requests

Because we deploy this documentation with GitHub Pages, the site directory is not gitignored

Markdown cheat sheet for this project

We created simple cheat sheet for MkDocs markdown syntax with extensions enabled in this project. It can be found here.