Creating codebase documentation on how to build the documentation

Review Request #7637 — Created Sept. 18, 2015 and submitted

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brenniebrennie

easy_install... I prefer pip, though.

brenniebrennie

This isn't particular to installing documentation. Also, apt-get will only work for users on Debian based systems.

brenniebrennie

"browse to..." We should put the path in double backquotes so it appears as monospaced text formated as code.

brenniebrennie

We don't need this split up into tiny sections. This can all go into one section (e.g., Building documentation).

brenniebrennie

Use double backquotes. I would also not use "get into" for changing directory. I would say something like The documentation …

brenniebrennie

Instead of "simply type the following" how about "install Sphinx via"

brenniebrennie

This can be replaced with something like "To generate the documentation, run the following:"

brenniebrennie

This doesn't really need to be here.

brenniebrennie

This should be double backticks, e.g. ``/reviewboard/docs/manual``

brenniebrennie

Likewise, this too.

brenniebrennie

Please wrap this to 80 characters.

daviddavid
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  1. <p>Please write a summary that describes the general issue and fill out the testing done. The bug number should also go in the bugs field.</p>
    <p>You don't need to include files that were added or modified in your change descriptions. You may want to read <a href="https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/codebase/dev/writing-good-descriptions/">Writing Good Descriptions</a>.</p>

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    easy_install...

    I prefer pip, though.

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    This isn't particular to installing documentation. Also, apt-get will only work for users on Debian based systems.

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    "browse to..."

    We should put the path in double backquotes so it appears as monospaced text formated as code.

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chipx86
  1. Some of the steps here (like the Sphinx installation) are no longer going to be necessary once https://reviews.reviewboard.org/r/7629/ lands. You'll want to update the steps to refer to the Getting Started guide for those parts.

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  1. The summary here "Easyfix: 3703" isn't particularly helpful. It forces someone reading the git log to go to the bug tracker to find out what happened. We also would like more detail in the description, and some details on how you tested this.

    Please see https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/codebase/dev/writing-good-descriptions/

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    We don't need this split up into tiny sections. This can all go into one section (e.g., Building documentation).

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    Use double backquotes.

    I would also not use "get into" for changing directory. I would say something like

    The documentation resides in the ``/reviewboard/docs/manual`` directory.
    
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    Instead of "simply type the following" how about "install Sphinx via"

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    This can be replaced with something like "To generate the documentation, run the following:"

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    This doesn't really need to be here.

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    This should be double backticks, e.g.

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    Likewise, this too.

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    Please wrap this to 80 characters.

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david
  1. Ship It!
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Pushed to release-2.5.x (8aeaea7)