Peter,

Feel free to message me on IRC (johnsom) if you run into questions
about enabling the PDF docs for your projects. I did the work for
Octavia so might have some answers.

Michael

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 12:36 AM Bogdan Dobrelya <bdobreli@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/3/21 9:30 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> > On 2021-03-03 15:05:10 -0500 (-0500), Peter Matulis wrote:
> > [...]
> >> How do I get a download PDF link like what is available in the
> >> published pages of the Nova project? Where is that documented?
>
> On each project's documentation page, there is a "Download PDF" button,
> at the top, near to the "Report a Bug".
>
> >>
> >> In short, yes, I am interested in having downloadable PDFs for the
> >> projects that I maintain:
> >>
> >> https://opendev.org/openstack/charm-guide
> >> https://opendev.org/openstack/charm-deployment-guide
> >
> > The official goal document is still available here:
> >
> > https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/selected/train/pdf-doc-generation.html
> >
> > Some technical detail can also be found in the earlier docs spec:
> >
> > https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/docs-specs/specs/ocata/build-pdf-from-rst-guides.html
> >
> > A bit of spelunking in Git history turns up, for example, this
> > change implementing PDF generation for openstack/ironic (you can
> > find plenty more if you hunt):
> >
> > https://review.opendev.org/680585
> >
> > I expect you would just do something similar to that. If memory
> > serves (it's been a couple years now), each project hit slightly
> > different challenges as no two bodies of documentation are every
> > quite the same. You'll likely have to dig deep occasionally in
> > Sphinx and LaTeX examples to iron things out.
> >
> > One thing which would have been nice as an output of that cycle goal
> > was if the PTI section for documentation was updated with related
> > technical guidance on building PDFs, but it's rather lacking in that
> > department still:
> >
> > https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/project-testing-interface.html#documentation
> >
> > If you can come up with a succinct summary for what's needed, I
> > expect adding it there would be really useful to others too.
> >
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Bogdan Dobrelya,
> Irc #bogdando
>
>