[ovirt-devel] Publicly available REST documentation

Juan Hernández jhernand at redhat.com
Tue Jan 3 14:22:35 UTC 2017


On 01/03/2017 03:20 PM, Petr Horacek wrote:
> Hi, I've been hacking public API docs yesterday, and I think it will
> work in GitHub-Travis combination. Now I am waiting if Gerrit-GitHub
> mirroring will remove branch created directly on GitHub, if not, then
> my approach would be following:
> 
> Both 4.0 and 4.1 branches will have .travis.yml in them that will run
> the build and then push generated pages to gh-pages branch (authorized
> via GitHub deploy key). For now I have a working demo on my fork
> (https://github.com/phoracek/ovirt-engine-api-model/blob/master/.travis.yml),
> this one does not use deploy keys, but token instead.
> 
> Hope I'm not breaking your work.
> 

Excellent! Please go ahead.

> 2017-01-03 14:49 GMT+01:00 Vojtech Szocs <vszocs at redhat.com>:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Rafael Martins" <rmartins at redhat.com>
>>> To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
>>> Cc: "Juan Hernández" <jhernand at redhat.com>, "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan at redhat.com>, "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 2:28:30 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Publicly available REST documentation
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
>>>> To: "Rafael Martins" <rmartins at redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: "Juan Hernández" <jhernand at redhat.com>, "Michal Skrivanek"
>>>> <mskrivan at redhat.com>, "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 2:24:22 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Publicly available REST documentation
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>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Rafael Martins" <rmartins at redhat.com>
>>>>> To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
>>>>> Cc: "Juan Hernández" <jhernand at redhat.com>, "Michal Skrivanek"
>>>>> <mskrivan at redhat.com>, "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 2:17:49 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Publicly available REST documentation
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
>>>>>> To: "Juan Hernández" <jhernand at redhat.com>
>>>>>> Cc: "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan at redhat.com>, "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 2:11:06 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Publicly available REST documentation
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>> From: "Juan Hernández" <jhernand at redhat.com>
>>>>>>> To: "Jakub Niedermertl" <jniederm at redhat.com>
>>>>>>> Cc: "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>, "Michal Skrivanek"
>>>>>>> <mskrivan at redhat.com>
>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 10:48:53 PM
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Publicly available REST documentation
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 01/02/2017 10:13 PM, Jakub Niedermertl wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Juan,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> from time to time I'd like the REST doc to be available on some
>>>>>>>> public
>>>>>>>> site. It would allow us to
>>>>>>>> * check the documentation without searching for running engine
>>>>>>>> * be able to easily link documentations in irc/mails
>>>>>>>> * link rest doc from ovirt.org site doc
>>>>>>>> Recently I've also heard similar request from other guys (cc-ed).
>>>>>>>> Would it be possible to for example publish generated doc of merged
>>>>>>>> patches of ovirt-engine-api-model project? Maybe github project
>>>>>>>> pages
>>>>>>>> [1] of project mirror [2] could be used for hosting.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>> Jakub
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>>> https://help.github.com/articles/user-organization-and-project-pages/#project-pages
>>>>>>>> [2] https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-api-model
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, we can publish the documentation using gh-pages. I just created
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> populated the 'gh-branch' with some initial content, and requested
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> activation of the feature in Github. I will inform you when it is
>>>>>>> ready.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alternatively, you could use readthedocs.org which supports webhooks:
>>>>>> a push to GitHub (mirror) project [syncing Gerrit with GitHub] would
>>>>>> regenerate the project's documentation available at
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   <your-project>.readthedocs.io
>>>>>>
>>>>>> which would allow to separate the GitHub project from its docs, given
>>>>>> the source comes from Gerrit.
>>>>>
>>>>> ReadTheDocs relies on sphinx and/or mkdocs to rebuild the docs when
>>>>> called
>>>>> by
>>>>> the webhook, and we use something else. We just need some hosting for
>>>>> static
>>>>> files, then github-pages is a better solution.
>>>>
>>>> Hm, and what about pushing to https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site directly,
>>>> instead of pushing to GitHub (mirror) project pages?
>>>
>>> there's no real need to mess with the ovirt-site repo. we can have a
>>> separated repo, that can be freely updated by a jenkins job, for example,
>>> and include it on ovirt-site using a sub-repository, like it is done for
>>> data/events today. The good thing of this approach is that we can have
>>> "unstable" docs in the separated repo, updated by jenkins, and just checkout
>>> stable versions on the ovirt-site subrepo.
>>
>> I like the idea of <project-x-docs> as sub-repo of <ovirt-site> :)
>>
>> Thanks for your response, it makes sense.
>>
>>>
>>> Rafael
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> Rafael
>>>>>
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