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+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
+