Contributing to documentation
Documentation Publication
This documentation is available in multiple formats.
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Click on Export as PDF on right side of gitbook Development branch publication
Contributing to documentation
The documentation is build using GitBook software from Markdown files in the documentation repository.
We encourage you to participate in improving the documentation. From corrected typos to new sections, every commit is appreciated. You can access the source files by clicking the "Fix this page"-button in the GitBook or by selecting the relevant Markdown-file in the documentation. You can commit your changes by sending a pull request.
Fork the repo, do work in a feature branch.
Issue a pull request.
Make sure the automated test suite succeeds. They will show-up in the pull request.
Sign the CLA using EasyCLA.
Assign a maintainer or other developer on this topic to accept/evaluate your pull request. The current maintainer can be found in the governance paragraph.
Some information on GitBook and using Markdown can be found here, more elaborate information on GitHub-flavored Markdown is found here. If you like to upload illustration, you can use git or Github
If you are completely new to this and you need help to get started, file an issue in the documentation repository.
Chapters in the documentation
It may be obvious to you already from the index, however, here is an overview on what documentation goes in which chapter.
Chapter 1 consist of an open smart grid platform introduction and architecture for potential users, architects and developers. The open smart grid platform website is used for basic product information.
Chapter 2 contains the general userguide for open smart grid platform users
Chapter 3 contains community related topics
Chapter 4 contains information related to the open smart grid platform domains
Chapter 5 contains information related to the protocols and simulators
Chapter 6 shows the support options
Chapter 7 code and documentation license
Versioning within the documentation
We have chosen to work with GitBook since it allows us to make different versions of documentation for each release. This is done by branching the files in the documentation repository. The master branch is used for releases only. The development branch is our main and current branch. If you like to improve the documentation, start a feature branch with your changes and send a pull request to the development branch.
Guidelines for new documentation
The master branch is only used by major open smart grid platform releases
Don't commit directly to the development branch, please do a pull request.
We use the American spelling
Please follow the used chapter and section numbering and apply it in your commits as well
Currently we do not use image numbering, since it is too much of a hassle to keep it up-to-date. If you have a smart idea to do this, let us know!
Give your (sub) document a relevant name or section with number
Update SUMMARY.md if needed
Documentation inspiration
Inspiration on how to write good documentation can be found here: http://docs.writethedocs.org/.
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