Doxygen plugin -> HTML published plugin (html)/ LaTeX (pdf)
Description: This was the first discovered method
html: using Doxygen plugin + HTML publisher It involves some customization at doxygen level + custom html header/footer
pdf: it generates a .pdf using latex
Input files: .md , .rst
Output: .html & .pdf
Pros:
- standard tools: doxygen, html publisher, LaTeX suite
- doxygen plugin available in Jenkins, you just need to install it; html publisher plugin available in Jenkins, you just need to install it
- destination files are generated fast
- standard reStructuredText or Markdown
Cons:
- takes some time to customize the output in matters of template, requires custom html header/footer
- latex suite is quite substantial in amount of packages and consumed space (around 1.2 GB)
Tested: roughly, functional tests only
Maven & clouddocs-maven-plugin (actually used to generate openstack-manuals)
Description: It represents the standard tool to generate Openstack documentation manuals, uses maven, maven plugins, clouddocs-maven-plugins; location of finally generated files is the object of a small Bash script that will reside as Post-actions
Input files: .xml
Output: .html & .pdf
Pros:
- quite easy for initial setup
- uses openstack documentation generation flows as for openstack-manuals (clouddocs-maven-plugin), maven installs all you need generate the documentation
Cons:
- could be tricky to generate a custom layout, knowledge about Maven plugins required, .pom editing
- dependent of multiple maven plugins
- input files are .xml and xml editing knowledge is required
Tested: roughly, functional tests only
Sphinx & LaTeX suite
Description: The easiest to install, the cleanest in matter of folder & files structure, uses standard tools available in repositories; location of finally generated files is the object of a small Bash script that will reside as Post-actions
Input files: .rst as default
Output: .html & .pdf
Pros:
- standard tools: Python Sphinx, LaTeX suite
- destination files are generated fast
- standard reStructuredText as default; other inputs can be configured
- Sphinx's installation is very clean in matters of folder structure; the cleanest from all tested variants
- latex suite is also easy to install via yum/apt and available in general repos
- everyone is migration from other tools to Spinx lately; it provides more control and better looking documentation
- can be used also for source-code documentation, specially if you use Python
Cons:
- takes some time to customize the output in matters of template, requires custom html header/footer
- latex suite is quite substantial in amount of packages and consumed space (around 1.2 GB)
Tested: roughly, functional tests only
Documentation tracking
Revision: 8454f0ea5b60dd31294e471c117b614d4ba35b10
Build date: Fri May 29 15:52:23 UTC 2015