Philosophy

write once, use everywhere

Documentations will be written once, and will be converted to other format according to different application scenarios.

Implementation

         +---------------+
         | Documentation |
         +-------+-------+
                 |
         +-------+-------+
         |  Doc Builder  |
         +-------+-------+
                 |
    +--------------------------------+
    |            |                   |
+---+---+    +---+----+        +-----+----+
|  PDF  |    |  HTML  |  ....  | Help Doc |
+-------+    +--------+        +----------+

Documentation：Text contents which is written by human. And this is the only place for documentation. Doc Builder: Tools that convert documentations to other format, such as PDF, HTML. There could be many tools, and we can use different tools to convert documentation to different formats.

Organization

docs/documentation: Root directory for documentation. And for different languages, there is a root directory for it. For example, docs/documentation/cn is the Chinese documentation's root directory. docs/scripts: Place of Doc Builder. docs/resources: Resources that are referenced in documentation, such as pictures. docs/website: A website for documentations built with Sphinx using a theme provided by Read-the-Docs.

Constraints

1. All documents are written in Markdown format, and file name is end with “.md”.
2. All documents are started with level 1 title # Title, and should have only one level 1 title.
3. Names of file and directory are in lowercase letters, and use dashes as separator.
4. Documentation can be constructed as a directory or a single Markdown file, these two formats equal with each other in logical. Relationship is represented by parent-child directory in directory format, and by title level in file format. It is recommended to use directory format to manage a large documentation, because it is easy to maintain.
5. A directory corresponds to a title, and readme.md in this directory is its content. Other documents in this directory is its sub-sections.
6. For manual like section, such as function description, there should be Description, Syntax, Examples section in documents.

Level Directories

1. doris-concepts
2. installing
3. getting-started
4. administrator-guide
5. sql-references
6. best-practices
7. internals
8. community

Each directory, or its sub directories should contain a file index.rst, for constructing the navibar of the website. For example:

documentation/
└── cn
    ├── administrator-guide
    │   ├── index.rst
    │   ├── http-actions
    │   │   └── index.rst
    │   ├── load-data
    │   │   ├── index.rst
    │   ├── operation
    │   │   ├── index.rst
    ├── extending-doris
    │   ├── index.rst
    └── sql-reference
        ├── index.rst
        │   ├── date-time-functions
        │   │   ├── index.rst