DesignSafe User Guide

DesignSafe MkDocs documentation with customized ReadTheDocs theme.

Contributing

How to Contirbute to Use Cases

How to Contribute Other Changes:

1. Fork this repository.
   ^{(unless you are a direct collaborator)}
2. Edit relevant files that need update.
   ^{(upload images as necessary)}
3. Commit your changes.
4. Test your changes.
   ^{(if comfortable using a command prompt)}
5. Request a review.
   ^{(a.k.a. create a "Pull Request")}

Resources

• Markdown syntax (extended) via MkDocs' Markdown support
  • plus some¹ enabled Python-Markdown extensions
  • plus some¹ enabled PyMdown exensions

Testing

• A. Via Python
• B. Via Docker

A. Via Python

Important

This method has different theme than live website (#42) and bugs (#66).

0. Have Python installed.
   ^{Known supported versions are from 3.10 to 3.12.}
1. Install Poetry to manage dependencies.
   ^{You should only need to do this once.}
2. Navigate into /user-guide/ within your clone of this repo.
3. Install/Update project dependencies:
   ^{You should only need to do this after new releases.}

   poetry install

4. Serve the docs:

   poetry shell
   mkdocs serve

   ^{After the poetry shell command, you should be in a Poetry-managed environment. Your prompt might be prefixed with the name of the environment.}
5. Open the website at the URL echoed by the program e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8000/user-guide/.

B. Via Docker

0. Have Docker installed.
   ^{We recommend doing so via Docker-Desktop.}

1. Navigate into your clone of this repository.

2. Start the Docker container to serve the docs.

   Using Make:

    make build
    make start
   

   Or:

    docker compose build
    docker compose up
   

3. Open the website at the URL provided e.g. http://localhost:8000/user-guide/.

Automatic Builds

Automatic builds (not deploys) should occur on pushes to any branch.²

Automatic Deployment

Automatic deploys should occur after an automatic build on the main branch.²

Releases

All commits to main will trigger a docker build and push a new image to designsafeci/ds-user-guide:latest.

A Watchtower service monitors new pushes to this dockerhub repo and pull down new images on the fly to https://designsafeci-dev.tacc.utexas.edu/user-guide/.

Footnotes

1. Enabled extensions are tracked by https://github.com/TACC/TACC-Docs/blob/main/mkdocs.base.yml under markdown_extensions:. ↩ ↩²

2. To manually build or deploy, consult our internal documentation. ↩ ↩²