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= Documentation

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== Sources

link:/documentation/[DeltaSpike Documentation] is available with <<source#, DeltaSpike Source>>.

== Format

The format used for DeltaSpike documentation is http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/[ASCIIDOC] because it's easily
exportable to PDF, HTML, and it's also easy to contribute. It can be used to export also to epub and also be used to write books

== Rendering documentation as HTML


_Requirenment:_ Have http://maven.apache.org/[Maven] installed.

If you cloned the source repository and want to render the documentation
as HTML, you just need to run the following command:

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$ cd REPO_ROOT/documentation
$ mvn site
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The generate documentation will be available at `REPO_ROOT/documentation/target/site`

== Contribute


If you would like to submit a documentation patch through Jira, you can
have a look at the <<suggested-git-workflows#,suggested approach>>.

== Publish procedure (for committers only)


If you're a committer and want to publish the documentation at http://deltaspike.apache.org/documentation/[DeltaSpike Site] you have do the following steps:

Put the following information in your ~/.m2/settings.xml file

[source,xml]
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<server>
  <id>deltaspike-site</id>
  <username><YOUR_USERNAME></username>
  <password><YOUR_PASSWORD></password>
</server>
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To publish to http://deltaspike.apache.org/staging/documentation[staging area], run:

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$ mvn clean site-deploy -P staging
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To publish to http://deltaspike.apache.org/staging/documentation[production area], run:

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$ mvn clean site-deploy
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Then run:

After log in to https://cms.apache.org/deltaspike/publish and click on the `Submit` button.