[openstack-dev] [all] Adding CONTRIBUTING.rst files to projects
Andreas Jaeger
aj at suse.com
Tue Jan 3 06:04:51 UTC 2017
On 01/03/2017 04:01 AM, Anne Gentle wrote:
> [...]
> Doug, I think the include in Sphinx can be a raw txt file? Then we get
> the best of both worlds - rendered on both docs.openstack.org
> <http://docs.openstack.org> and github.com <http://github.com>.
We do not need an rst file, github handles .txt just fine. I see no
reason to move to txt.
> I'll give that a shot with these patches as a proof of concept:
>
> 1. Change cookie-cutter file to CONTRIBUTING.txt
> https://review.openstack.org/416109
> 2. Update openstack-manuals rendered docs with an included
> CONTRIBUTING.txt https://review.openstack.org/416112
>
> We won't really know the GitHub UI rendering of the include until
> merged, but I've tested in other repos and changing the file extension
> to .txt gives a link to that file.
Works with RST as well for me - I just created a pull request for
cookiecutter and got the contributing link as expected. There's no need
to use txt files.
> Thoughts? Please comment on the reviews or here. I can work on it if we
> think it's worthwhile to standardize upon, and/or collaborate with the
> original contributor who wanted to standardize. I do believe the GitHub
> experience is worthy of attention, similar in my mind to the recent
> badges work.
Andreas
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