Other options to generate documentation that we tested
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**Doxygen plugin -> HTML published plugin (html)/ LaTeX (pdf)**
Description: This was the first discovered method
* html: using Doxygen plugin + HTML publisher
It involves some customization at doxygen level + custom html header/footer
* pdf: it generates a .pdf using latex
* Input files: .md , .rst
* Output: .html & .pdf
* Pros:
- standard tools: doxygen, html publisher, LaTeX suite
- doxygen plugin available in Jenkins, you just need to install it;
html publisher plugin available in Jenkins, you just need to install it
- destination files are generated fast
- standard reStructuredText or Markdown
* Cons:
- takes some time to customize the output in matters of template,
requires custom html header/footer
- latex suite is quite substantial in amount of packages and consumed space (around 1.2 GB)
* Tested: roughly, functional tests only
**Maven & clouddocs-maven-plugin (actually used to generate openstack-manuals)**
Description: It represents the standard tool to generate Openstack documentation manuals,
uses maven, maven plugins, clouddocs-maven-plugins;
location of finally generated files is the object of a small Bash script
that will reside as Post-actions
* Input files: .xml
* Output: .html & .pdf
* Pros:
- quite easy for initial setup
- uses openstack documentation generation flows as for
openstack-manuals (clouddocs-maven-plugin),
maven installs all you need generate the documentation
* Cons:
- could be tricky to generate a custom layout,
knowledge about Maven plugins required, .pom editing
- dependent of multiple maven plugins
- input files are .xml and xml editing knowledge is required
* Tested: roughly, functional tests only
**Sphinx & LaTeX suite**
Description: The easiest to install, the cleanest in matter of folder & files structure,
uses standard tools available in repositories;
location of finally generated files is the object of a small Bash script that will
reside as Post-actions
* Input files: .rst as default
* Output: .html & .pdf
* Pros:
- standard tools: Python Sphinx, LaTeX suite
- destination files are generated fast
- standard reStructuredText as default; other inputs can be configured
- Sphinx's installation is very clean in matters of folder structure;
the cleanest from all tested variants
- latex suite is also easy to install via yum/apt and available in general repos
- everyone is migration from other tools to Spinx lately;
it provides more control and better looking documentation
- can be used also for source-code documentation, specially if you use Python
* Cons:
- takes some time to customize the output in matters of template, requires custom html header/footer
- latex suite is quite substantial in amount of packages and consumed space (around 1.2 GB)
* Tested: roughly, functional tests only
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