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| author | Swift Geek <swiftgeek@gmail.com> | 2017-06-06 11:41:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Gogs <gogitservice@gmail.com> | 2017-06-06 11:41:41 +0000 |
| commit | 25c1952acd0bbf39630d956ed2404f4c896eb41b (patch) | |
| tree | 03e8b662df0c634a0c1a40d4d56892c779c35de7 | |
| parent | b598791cc7139094d7c76dbcbd45126d3a77f398 (diff) | |
| parent | 6e4bd65054c463910a65a5cf8942225a351519e9 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'www/various-website-improvements' of libreboot/libreboot into master
| -rw-r--r-- | www/contrib.md | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | www/git.md | 30 |
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diff --git a/www/contrib.md b/www/contrib.md index b1089a39..2322157e 100644 --- a/www/contrib.md +++ b/www/contrib.md @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ PHP. Additionally assisted with [booting Linux](https://blog.rosenzweig.io/blobless-linux-on-the-pi.md) on the Raspberry Pi without blobs. Current sysadmin and assists with project management. +Andrew Robbins +-------------- + +Works on large parts of Libreboot's build system and related documentation. +Andrew joined the Libreboot project as part of core management on 4 June 2017. +IRC nick `and_who` on #libreboot IRC. + Arthur Heymans -------------- @@ -33,6 +33,31 @@ We currently have a shortage of people who possess the skill to write and maintain good documentation for Libreboot, so we welcome any and all contributions! +The .md files are written in Pandoc flavoured Markdown. The following scripts +form Libreboot's *static site generator* which converts the Markdown files into +HTML, to create the website: + +- index.sh: generates the news feed (on the News section of the website) +- publish.sh: converts an .md file to an .html file +- generate.sh: with calls to index.sh and publish.sh, compiles the entire + Libreboot website + +To view your local version of the website, it is advisable to install an HTTP +server (e.g. nginx, lighttpd) and configure it so that the `www` directory in +your local Git repository is the document root. With this, you can run +`generate.sh` and view your own version of the website locally. This can be +useful for larger changes (including structural) if you're making many large +improvements to the website. However, it is possible to just edit the Markdown +files with a text editor and submit those, or view individual .html files +(generated by publish.sh) in a Web browser (e.g. Firefox). + +If you're running a local HTTP server, you can view your local version of the +site by typing `localhost` into your browser's URL bar. + +At present, the site and documentation are optimized for use on the Web (as +HTML, generated by Pandoc), but we would like to possibly support other use +cases, such as PDF documents for printed manuals. + General guidelines for submitting patches ----------------------------------------- @@ -48,6 +73,11 @@ the *Creative Commons Zero* license is highly recommended. Otherwise, the **GNU General Public License, version 3 or (at your option) any later version**, is preferred; we will also accept any other free license. +*We require all documentation and website changes to use the [GNU Free +Documentation License, version 1.3](docs/fdl-1.3.md) or (at your option) any +later version published by the Free Software Foundation; without Invariant +sections, without front cover texts and without back cover texts.* + Libreboot development is facilitated by *[git](https://git-scm.com/)*, a *distributed* version control system. You will need to install Git (most GNU+Linux distributions package it in their repositories). |