Documentation Basics

You can read the most up to date documentation online at this link: http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

Source files

The documentation source files can be found in the docs/ folder of the oh-mainline repository: https://github.com/openhatch/oh-mainline/tree/master/docs

reStructuredText and Sphinx

The documentation for OpenHatch is built using Sphinx and deployed at readthedocs. You can learn more about the Sphinx, which uses reStructuredText (.rst files) format, and Sphinx deploy commands.

Style

We encourage you to help improve the OpenHatch documentation. We have a Documentation Style Guide which gives an overview of our basic documentation style and guidelines.

Changing or Adding Documentation

Before making any changes, we recommend taking a moment to read the Documentation Style Guide.

Making changes to documentation via pull request

To alter the documentation, you’ll want to clone the github repository. (Not sure what cloning is? Read our version of Git Basics.)

Once you’ve got a local copy, you can edit the files in the docs/ directory to make changes. You may find the official Sphinx reStructuredText primer useful for that.

To see the changes rendered locally, you can run the render_docs.py script found in the tools folder of the oh-mainline repository:

python tools/render_docs.py

You will find the documentation rendered into html format inside the docs/html folder of the oh-mainline repository. You can view it in your browser and check that you like your changes before submitting them. (Again, see Git Basics for help submitting your changes.)

Once you submit your changes as a pull request and they have been merged by a maintainer, they will appear in the openhatch/oh-mainline repository. The openhatch.readthedocs.org/ files will update automatically via a github web hook.

Note

If you’ve create a new file or edited/deleted a “toctree”, you may get an error “WARNING: document isn’t included in any toctree”. This means a file is not referenced by a table of contents anywhere. Consider adding it to one. See Sphinx guide or reference.)

Making changes to documentation via readthedocs/Github editor

If you’re having trouble navigating the documentation by opening and editing files locally, you can also try paging through the readthedocs. Each page should have an ‘Edit on Github’ link in the righthand corner. When you click this link, Github will automatically create a fork of the project for you (if one does not automatically exist). Once you finish editing, make sure to submit a pull request.