Modular Documentation

What is this about?

This repository contains modular documentation for SUSE products. The documentation consists of smaller information units with the following characteristics:

• Self-contained

  Including requirements, context, instructions, and FAQs. Each information unit is supposed to stand for itself.

• Cover one distinct purpose:

  Rather than covering a complete technology or a set of problems, each information unit covers only one distinct topic. We provide three different types of information units:

  • Task (how to?) - XML template
  • Concept (what is?) - XML template
  • Reference (e.g. list of options, table with config files, default settings) - XML template

• For re-use in different contexts:

  Every information units stands for itself, but it can be bundled into collections that cover different products/solutions.

Conventions

Naming of XML/ADOC files

• use hyphens as separators
• use type as prefix (task-|concept-|reference-)
• content must be obvious from filename
• example: topic-register-product-after-installation.xml

Naming of image files

• use hyphens as separators
• content must be obvious from filename
• example: yast2-register-sles.png

IDs

• use hyphens as separators
• root ID:
  • use type as prefix (task-|concept-|reference-)
  • for task type, use verb in infinitive: e.g. task-register-product-after-installation
  • for concept/reference type, use nouns: e.g. reference-zypper-options, concept-fencing
• section IDs:

  • must not reflect structure, but need to reflect content

  • for the sake of unique IDs for recurring sections per topic type (e.g. Introduction, Requirements, Summary, Troubleshooting, Next steps, Related topics), the section IDs should match the pattern SECTIONTITLE-ROOTID, e.g.

    • introduction-register-product-after-installation
    • requirements-register-product-after-installation
    • summary-register-product-after-installation
    • troubleshooting-register-product-after-installation
    • next-register-product-after-installation
    • related-register-product-after-installation

DC files

• one DC file per information unit
• should match root ID of file

Metadata

• add the following metadata as comment at the top of a file:
  • productname (e.g. SLES) - can be multiple
  • product version (e.g. 15 SP3) - can be multiple
  • topic category/ies (see below Categories) - can be multiple
  • target group(s) - can be multiple
  • initially published
  • last modified

Topic categories

Each information unit should be marked as belonging to one or more of the following categories:

• architecture
• planning
• installation
• deployment
• upgrade
• system administration
• network
• tuning
• security
• public cloud
• storage
• container
• virtualization