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Daniel P. Berrangé
dc0d07278c docs: convert virkeycode*/virkeyname* man pages from pod to rst
The keycodemap tool is told to generate docs in rst format now
instead of pod.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
ab06dd9db3 docs: convert virsh man page from pod to rst
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
10251eae0e docs: convert virt-admin man page from pod to rst
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
9aca11ac6a docs: convert virt-login-shell man page from pod to rst
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
44bd1902f3 docs: convert virt-sanlock-cleanup man page from pod to rst
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
48a5589b76 docs: convert virt-xml-validate man page from pod to rst
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
c9ef27dfe8 docs: convert virt-pki-validate man page from pod to rst
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
9f050677b5 docs: convert virt-host-validate man page from pod to rst
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
f09c4d7899 docs: convert virtlogd man page from pod to rst
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
a318683c5b docs: convert virtlockd man page from pod to rst
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
b8aa1846a0 docs: convert libvirtd man page from pod to rst
This was a semi-automated conversion. First it was run through pod2rst,
and then it was manually editted to use a rst structure that matches
expectations of rst2man.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
40780d1a4c docs: introduce rst2man as a mandatory tool for building docs
The rst2man tool is provided by python docutils, and as the name
suggests, it converts RST documents into man pages.

The intention is that our current POD docs will be converted to
RST format, allowing one more use of Perl to be eliminated from
libvirt.

The manual pages will now all be kept in the docs/manpages/ directory,
which enables us to include the man pages in the published website.
This is good for people searching for libvirt man pages online as it
makes it more likely google will send them to the libvirt.org instead
of some random third party man page site with outdated content.

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 14:28:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
2dc58472c1 docs: fix duplication variable name for rst files
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-11 10:59:43 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
c7f75bf04d docs: introduce rst2html as a mandatory tool for building docs
The rst2html tool is provided by python docutils, and as the name
suggests, it converts RST documents into HTML.

Basic rules are added for integrating RST docs into the website
build process.

This enables us to start writing docs on our website in RST format
instead of HTML, without changing the rest of our website templating
system away from XSLT yet.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-04 15:48:28 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
5ffbad2575 docs: move apibuild.py to the scripts/ directory
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-04 11:41:32 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
8d9ca128f1 docs: don't run xmllint when generating API HTML files
After generating the API HTML files we run xmllint in docs/html/*.html
to validate the correctness. Since

  commit 0aa8536f14
  Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
  Date:   Wed Nov 20 14:49:26 2019 +0000

    docs: generate API reference pages for admin, qemu & lxc libraries

we have many rules generating files into docs/html/. The xmllint
calls for each rule are picking up files which are part-generated by
other parallel build rules resulting in transient errors like:

  GEN      html/index.html
  GEN      html/index-admin.html
  GEN      html/index-qemu.html
  GEN      html/index-lxc.html
  GEN      hvsupport.html.in
html/index-lxc.html:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
make[4]: *** [Makefile:2407: html/index-qemu.html] Error 1

The easiest solution is to move the xmllint rules to the 'make check'
phase of the build.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-28 14:31:10 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
eef089db78 docs: fix include of ACL permissions files
The XSL generator loads included HTML files relative to the source dir
but we need to tell it to load them from the build dir instead.

Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-22 11:14:20 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
9434d7e139 docs: fix ability to view web pages from build tree
Some of the web content is only present in the source tree, thus when
viewing pages from the build tree they appear missing.

Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-22 11:14:20 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
adfcc76575 docs: remove unused make targets
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-22 11:14:20 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
0aa8536f14 docs: generate API reference pages for admin, qemu & lxc libraries
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-22 11:14:20 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
fc24f22051 docs: use variable for referencing API XML filenames
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-22 11:14:20 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
4ce0fea015 docs: drop building of API -refs.xml files
The API cross reference files are not used since

  commit d3043afe5c
  Author: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
  Date:   Mon Jan 21 08:08:33 2008 +0000

    Remove docs/API*.html
    * docs/API* docs/api.xsl docs/site.xsl docs/Makefile.am: remove the
      generation of the API*.html files as it's not really useful here

Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-22 11:14:16 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
f6fbb2e67f docs: stop using custom rules for building / installing web pages
Define automake variables for all the data we need built and installed
and let automake generate the install rules normally.

Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-22 11:14:06 +00:00
Pavel Hrdina
67a61a1bf6 docs: generate files into build dir and stop distributing them
Historically we did not support VPATH builds and everything was
generated into source directory.  The introduction of VPATH builds did
not changed the way how our documentation is handled.

This patch changes the rules to generate everything into build
directory and stops distributing generated files in order to have
properly separated VPATH builds.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-10-23 14:46:26 +02:00
Pavel Hrdina
3097282d86 build: move admin code into admin directory
There is no need to have the libvirt-admin.so library definition in the
src directory.  In addition the library uses directly code from admin
sub-directory so move the remaining bits there as well.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-10-23 14:30:58 +02:00
Peter Krempa
80c1d57700 util: typedparam: Split out public APIs into a separate file
Some of the typed parameter APIs are exported publicly, but the
implementation was intermixed with private functions. Introduce
virtypedparam-public.c, move all public API functions there and purge
the comments stating that some functions are public.

This will decrease the likelihood of messing up the expectations as well
as it will become more clear which of them are actually public.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-09-25 13:02:48 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
ada268012a build: force a UTF-8 locale for python
Python3 versions less than 3.7 have very unhelpful handling
of the C locale where they assume data is 7-bit only. This
violates POSIX which requires the C locale to be 8-bit clean.
Python3 >= 3.7 now assumes that the C locale is always UTF-8.

Set env variables to force LC_CTYPE to en_US.UTF-8 so that
we get UTF-8 handling on all python versions. Note we do
not use C.UTF-8 since not all C libraries support that.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-09-24 15:46:22 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
926b7b6e6c docs: remove devhelp API docs
We currently generate two completely separate API references for the
libvirt public API. One at 'docs/html/' and one at 'docs/devhelp/'.
Both are published on the website, but we only link to content in
the 'docs/html/' pages.

Both are installed in the libvirt-docs sub-RPM, with a full copy
of the website including 'docs/html/' in /usr/share/docs/libvirt-docs,
while the 'docs/devhelp/' content goes to /usr/share/gtk-doc/. The
latter was broken for years until:

  commit ca6f602546
  Author: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
  Date:   Fri May 10 14:54:52 2019 +0200

    docs: Introduce $(devhelphtml_generated)

    Our XSLT magic generates one Devhelp-compatible HTML file
    per documentation module, but so far we have only shipped
    and installed documentation for virterror.

    Now that we have $(modules), however, we can generate the
    list of files the same way we do for regular documentation
    and make sure we always ship and install everything.

That this bug went unnoticed for so long is a sign of how few
people are using the devhelp docs. The only commits to the devhelp
code since it was first introduced have been fixing various build
problems that hit.

The only obvious difference between the two sets of docs is the CSS
styling in use. Overall devhelp does not look compelling enough to
justify having two duplicated sets of API docs. Eliminating it will
reduce the amount of XSL code we are carrying in the tree which is
an attractive benefit.

Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-09-09 14:48:50 +01:00
Eric Blake
0d44788fc3 backup: Introduce virDomainCheckpoint APIs
Introduce a bunch of new public APIs related to backup checkpoints.
Checkpoints are modeled heavily after virDomainSnapshotPtr (both
represent a point in time of the guest), although a snapshot exists
with the intent of rolling back to that state, while a checkpoint
exists to make it possible to create an incremental backup at a later
time.  We may have a future hypervisor that can completely manage
checkpoints without libvirt metadata, but the first two planned
hypervisors (qemu and test) both always use libvirt for tracking
metadata relations between checkpoints, so for now, I've deferred
the counterpart of virDomainSnapshotHasMetadata for a separate
API addition at a later date if there is ever a need for it.

Note that until we allow snapshots and checkpoints to exist
simultaneously on the same domain (although the actual prevention of
this will be in a separate patch for the sake of an easier revert down
the road), that it is not possible to branch out to create more than
one checkpoint child to a given parent, although it may become
possible later when we revert to a snapshot that coincides with a
checkpoint.  This also means that for now, the decision of which
checkpoint becomes the parent of a newly created one is the only
checkpoint with no child (so while there are APIs for dealing with a
current snapshot, we do not need those for checkpoints).  We may end
up exposing a notion of a current checkpoint later, but it's easier to
add stuff when proven needed than to blindly support it now and wish
we hadn't exposed it.

The following map shows the API relations to snapshots, with new APIs
on the right:

Operate on a domain object to create/redefine a child:
virDomainSnapshotCreateXML          virDomainCheckpointCreateXML

Operate on a child object for lifetime management:
virDomainSnapshotDelete             virDomainCheckpointDelete
virDomainSnapshotFree               virDomainCheckpointFree
virDomainSnapshotRef                virDomainCheckpointRef

Operate on a child object to learn more about it:
virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc         virDomainCheckpointGetXMLDesc
virDomainSnapshotGetConnect         virDomainCheckpointGetConnect
virDomainSnapshotGetDomain          virDomainCheckpointGetDomain
virDomainSnapshotGetName            virDomainCheckpiontGetName
virDomainSnapshotGetParent          virDomainCheckpiontGetParent
virDomainSnapshotHasMetadata        (deferred for later)
virDomainSnapshotIsCurrent          (no counterpart, see note above)

Operate on a domain object to list all children:
virDomainSnapshotNum                (no counterparts, these are the old
virDomainSnapshotListNames           racy interfaces)
virDomainSnapshotListAllSnapshots   virDomainListAllCheckpoints

Operate on a child object to list descendents:
virDomainSnapshotNumChildren        (no counterparts, these are the old
virDomainSnapshotListChildrenNames   racy interfaces)
virDomainSnapshotListAllChildren    virDomainCheckpointListAllChildren

Operate on a domain to locate a particular child:
virDomainSnapshotLookupByName       virDomainCheckpointLookupByName
virDomainSnapshotCurrent            (no counterpart, see note above)
virDomainHasCurrentSnapshot         (no counterpart, old racy interface)

Operate on a snapshot to roll back to earlier state:
virDomainSnapshotRevert             (no counterpart, instead checkpoints
                                     are used in incremental backups via
				     XML to virDomainBackupBegin)

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-07-26 16:48:58 -05:00
Ján Tomko
7e431a521c docs: news: remove sed sorcery
Set a default namespace in the stylesheet instead.

Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2019-07-17 17:34:08 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
3918fb0dc1 docs: introduce a "knowledge base" for task oriented guides
The previously added AMD SEV doc was not linked from anywhere on the
website. Address this by introducing a new "Knowledge base" section
that can hold task oriented guide to various features. Moving the SEV,
disk locking and secure usage guides under this section.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-07-09 18:43:12 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
a4d0f65faf docs: Remove unused JavaScript libraries
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2019-06-20 15:33:29 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
6716c997f6 docs: Install documentation under $(docdir)
At the moment we allow the user to specify exactly where
they want the HTML documentation to be installed with an
extreme level of precision through the --with-html-dir and
--with-html-subdir configure options.

Most of the time, of course, the user will stick with the
default, that is $(datadir)/doc/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)/html.

So close to $(docdir)! Including the version number in
the path, specifically, seems entirely unnecessary since
different releases of libvirt are not going to be able to
coexist on the same system anyway.

Drop all these custom flexibilty for flexibilty's sake
shenaningans in favor of the standard, well understood
$(docdir).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2019-05-13 12:02:13 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
ca6f602546 docs: Introduce $(devhelphtml_generated)
Our XSLT magic generates one Devhelp-compatible HTML file
per documentation module, but so far we have only shipped
and installed documentation for virterror.

Now that we have $(modules), however, we can generate the
list of files the same way we do for regular documentation
and make sure we always ship and install everything.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2019-05-13 12:02:11 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
78b748b94b docs: Introduce $(modules)
This variable contains a lists of documentation modules,
in a neutral format.

Right now is only used to define $(apihtml_generated), but
later on we're gonna reuse it.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2019-05-13 12:02:04 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
97e743ac14 docs: move javascript logic into a standalone file
Instead of duplicating javascript in every single page, put it in a
standalone file which can be cached by the browser.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-11 15:20:17 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
db3d4f96c9 docs: ensure javascript files are included in dist & install rules
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-11 15:20:17 +01:00
Cole Robinson
fb0d6049cc docs: Remove search.php and all references
libvirt.org/search.php drops into some kind of screen which I guess
is supposed to show a search bar with options, but presently for me
renders as nothing but the following text:

Search the documentation on Libvirt.org

The search service indexes the libvirt APIs and documentation as well as the libvir-list@redhat.com mailing-list archives. To use it simply provide a set of keywords:

The main page search bar now redirects to google, this page is broken,
I say we just remove it and move on.

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-04-04 18:45:06 -04:00
Peter Krempa
6be034a8c0 docs: api_extension: Remove example patches
Now that they are not linked any more remove them.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2018-08-24 16:23:01 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
3e7db8d3e8 Remove backslash alignment attempts
Right-aligning backslashes when defining macros or using complex
commands in Makefiles looks cute, but as soon as any changes is
required to the code you end up with either distractingly broken
alignment or unnecessarily big diffs where most of the changes
are just pushing all backslashes a few characters to one side.

Generated using

  $ git grep -El '[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]\\$' | \
    grep -E '*\.([chx]|am|mk)$$' | \
    while read f; do \
      sed -Ei 's/[[:blank:]]*[[:blank:]]\\$/ \\/g' "$f"; \
    done

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2017-11-03 13:24:12 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
7c956d42a2 docs: make website responsive for mobile devices
The website does not look good in a mobile device as the text is
far too small and the layout assumes a wide screen.

Make the style dynamically adapt based on viewport size, so a
mobile device gets a layout more suited to its dimensions,
also changing "Learn" to "Docs"

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2017-08-07 14:44:40 +01:00
John Ferlan
8947504683 docs: Fix syntax-check error
Commit id '94d2d6429' caused a syntax-error check to fail:

docs/Makefile.am:276:	$(AM_V_GEN)sed -e '/<span id="php_placeholder"><\/span>/r '"$(srcdir)/$@.code.in" \
maint.mk: Wrap long lines in Makefiles
cfg.mk:721: recipe for target 'sc_prohibit_long_lines' failed
make: *** [sc_prohibit_long_lines] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Altered the line to put another line wrap between sed and -e
2017-08-02 15:00:58 -04:00
Daniel P. Berrange
94d2d6429d docs: make xmllint & xsltproc compulsory
We already require libxml to be installed, so it is not unreasonable
to require xmllint and xsltproc to be installed too - any platform
with the former will have the latter too.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2017-08-02 17:00:11 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
f802c9de09 docs: drop XHTML 1.0 validation of website
The HTML pages are currently validated against an XHTML 1.0 DTD.
This makes it impossible to take advantage of features that are
introduced in HTML 5, because they'll fail validation.

There is intentionally no DTD defined for HTML 5, so there's no
alternative to XHTML 1.0 DTD that we could switch to. The only
options are to stick with XHTML 1.0 forever, or drop the DTD
validation, and we pick the latter.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2017-08-02 17:00:11 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
4f01054500 docs: Format comment timestamp in UTC
I just forgot '-u' in a54c962286.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2017-07-28 16:24:45 +02:00
Martin Kletzander
a54c962286 docs: Add build timestamps to generated html/php pages
In order not to make the build even less reproducible, honour
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable as specified:

  https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2017-07-26 17:47:25 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
d672551816 HACKING: Drop from the git repository
Despite being a generated file, HACKING has been tracked in
the git repository along with actual source files. As far as
I'm aware, it's the only generated file for which that happens.

Times and times again, people[1] have committed changes to
the source file without refreshing the generated copy at the
same time.

The rationale for tracking the generated file is to help out
people who just cloned the git repository looking to contribue;
however, README-hacking already contains enough information to
get perspective contributors to a place where they can simply
look at docs/hacking.html instead.

[1] Mostly me, to be honest

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2017-06-26 14:25:54 +02:00
Nikolay Shirokovskiy
bb9055b87e docs: install html fonts and related 2017-05-12 16:49:08 +03:00
Peter Krempa
62ed907a7b docs: Add news.rng to EXTRA_DIST 2017-04-05 13:17:53 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
be36ea4b52 NEWS: Improve building pipeline
Currently, building the NEWS file involves using a XSLT stylesheet
to extract information from the same HTML file that's used on the
libvirt website.

The process works, but it's quite fiddly in that it requires the
source HTML to be formatted in a very precise way, and a single
missing newline can mess up the resulting plain text considerably.

Moreover, the XSLT stylesheet itself encodes a lot of the details
of converting to plain text in a way that's not necessarily easy
to understand, tweak or fix.

To improve the process, move all existing entries to a new XML
file that contains exactly the information we care about in a
simple structured format, and start generating both the HTML and
plain text versions of the release notes using XSLT stylesheets
that can now afford to be almost trivial.
2017-01-10 19:37:53 +01:00