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feat: flip swap mechanism — MD as primary, RST as override (Phase 1)
This is the first of three phases inverting the per-page swap mechanism so MD becomes the canonical primary and RST becomes the rare override. Phase 1 — file renames + conf.py exclude_patterns flip only: - Rename docs/**/md-<stem>.md to docs/**/<stem>.md (drop md- prefix) for all 254 stems previously listed in docs/_swap.txt - Rename docs/**/<stem>.rst to docs/**/rst-<stem>.rst (add rst- prefix) for the same 254 stems - Repurpose docs/_swap.txt as docs/_rst_overrides.txt; initially empty comment-only since no pages need the RST fallback right now - conf.py exclude_patterns flipped: rst-*.rst is now excluded by default instead of md-*.md - conf.py runtime-artifact references updated to _rst_override_state.json and _md_exclude.txt (Phase 2 will rewrite swap_sources.py to produce these names; for now no swap script runs because overrides list is empty) Phase 2 (next commit on this branch) will rewrite scripts/swap_sources.py with inverted rename direction, delete scripts/import_myst.py + tests, and update tests/test_swap_sources.py for the new semantics. Phase 3 will be the cleanup pass and ready-for-review flip. Generated by robots https://vyos.io
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-:lastproofread: 2021-06-25
-
-.. _documentation:
-
-###################
-Write Documentation
-###################
-
-We encourage every VyOS user to help us improve our documentation as we have
-a deficit like most software projects. This not only helps you when reading
-but also everyone else.
-
-.. warning::
-
- Please read and sign the
- :doc:`Contributor License Agreement<contributing/cla>` before submitting any
- documentation updates.
-
-If you are willing to contribute to our documentation this is the definite
-guide how to do so.
-
-.. note:: In contrast to submitting code patches, there is no requirement that
- you open up a Phabricator_ task prior to submitting a Pull-Request to the
- documentation.
-
-VyOS documentation is written in reStructuredText and generated to Read the Docs
-pages with Sphinx, as per the Python tradition. We welcome all sorts of
-contributions to the documentation.
-Not just new additions but also corrections to existing documentation.
-
-The documentation source is kept in the Git repository at
-https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation and you can follow the instructions
-in the README.md_ to build and test your changes.
-
-You can either install Sphinx and build the documentation locally,
-or use the Dockerfile_ to build it in a container.
-
-Guidelines
-==========
-
-There are a few things to keep in mind when contributing to the
-documentation, for the sake of consistency and readability.
-
-
-The following is a quick summary of the rules:
-
-- Use American English at all times. It's always a good idea to run
- your text through a grammar and spell checker, such as `Grammarly`_.
-- Don't forget to update ``index.rst`` when adding a new node.
-- Try not to exceed 80 characters per line, but don't break URLs over this.
-- Properly quote commands, filenames and brief code snippets with double backticks.
-- Use literal blocks for longer snippets.
-- Leave a newline before and after a header.
-- Indent with two spaces.
-- When in doubt, follow the style of existing documentation.
-
-And finally, remember that the reStructuredText files aren't
-exclusively for generating HTML and PDF. They should be human-readable
-and easily perused from a console.
-
-Page content
-============
-
-All RST files must follow the same TOC Level syntax and have to start with
-
-.. code-block::
-
- #####
- Title
- #####
-
-The configuration mode folder and the articles cover the specific level of
-the commands. The exact level depends on the command. This should provide
-stability for URLs used in the forum or blogpost.
-
-For example:
-
- * ``set firewall zone`` is written in ``firewall/zone.rst``
- * ``set interfaces ethernet`` is written in ``interfaces/ethernet.rst``
-
-In the configuration part of the page, all possible configuration options
-should be documented. Use ``.. cfgcmd::`` described above.
-
-Related operation command must be documented in the next part of the article.
-Use ``::opcmd..`` for these commands.
-
-Each page must contain the following parts:
-
-1. Theoretical information
---------------------------
-
-Theoretical information required for users to understand the next document sections:
-
- - a simple explanation of what is this page about, why or when it is required to be used
- - references to standards, RFCs
-
-2. Configuration description
-----------------------------
-
- Describe CLI items related to the service or use case. Each config line
- or section must be explained, using information provided in the 1st part
- of the page.
-
-3. Configuration examples
--------------------------
-
- Practical examples of the service or use case configuration. They must
- contain topology maps (if applicable) and short descriptions.
-
-4. Known issues
----------------
-
-This section must contain a list of:
-
- - known issues or potential problems for the service or use case
- - workarounds for known issues (if any exist)
-
-5. Debugging
-------------
-
-Described procedures for debugging a service:
-
- - how to collect logs or other debugging information (like `show` commands output)
- - how to read and what to search for in logs and collected information
- - what are indicators of good and bad states in debugging outputs
-
-
-
-Style Guide
-===========
-
-Formatting and Sphinxmarkup
----------------------------
-
-TOC Level
-^^^^^^^^^^
-
-We use the following syntax for Headlines.
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- #####
- Title
- #####
-
- ********
- Chapters
- ********
-
- Sections
- ========
-
- Subsections
- -----------
-
- Subsubsections
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Paragraphs
- """"""""""
-
-Cross-References
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-A plugin will be used to generate a reference label for each headline.
-To reference a page or a section in the documentation use the
-``:ref:`` command.
-
-For example, you want to reference the headline **VLAN** in the
-**ethernet.rst** page. The plugin generates the label based on
-the headline and the file path.
-
-``:ref:`configuration/interfaces/ethernet:vlan``
-
-to use an alternative hyperlink use it this way:
-
-``:ref:`Check out VLAN<configuration/interfaces/ethernet:vlan>``
-
-handle build errors
-"""""""""""""""""""
-
-The plugin will warn on build if a headline has a duplicate name in the
-same document. To prevent this warning, you have to put a custom link on
-top of the headline.
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- Section A
- ==========
-
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr
-
- Example
- -------
-
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr
-
- Section B
- ==========
-
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr
-
- .. _section B example:
-
- Example
- -------
-
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr
-
-
-Address space
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Note the following RFCs (:rfc:`5737`, :rfc:`3849`, :rfc:`5389` and
-:rfc:`7042`), which describe the reserved public IP addresses and autonomous
-system numbers for the documentation:
-
- * ``192.0.2.0/24``
- * ``198.51.100.0/24``
- * ``203.0.113.0/24``
- * ``2001:db8::/32``
- * 16bit ASN: ``64496 - 64511``
- * 32bit ASN: ``65536 - 65551``
- * Unicast MAC Addresses: ``00-53-00`` to ``00-53-FF``
- * Multicast MAC-Addresses: ``90-10-00`` to ``90-10-FF``
-
-Please do not use other public address space.
-
-
-Line length
-^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Limit all lines to a maximum of 80 characters.
-
-Except in ``.. code-block::`` because it uses the html tag ``<pre>`` and
-renders the same line format from the source rst file.
-
-
-Autolinter
-^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Each GitHub pull request is automatically linted to check the address space and
-line length.
-
-Sometimes it is necessary to provide real IP addresses like in the
-:ref:`examples`. For this, please use the sphinx comment syntax
-``.. stop_vyoslinter`` to stop the linter and ``.. start_vyoslinter`` to start.
-
-
-Custom Sphinx-doc Markup
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Custom commands have been developed for writing the documentation. Please
-make yourself comfortable with those commands as this eases the way we
-render the documentation.
-
-cfgcmd
-""""""
-
-When documenting CLI commands, use the ``.. cfgcmd::`` directive
-for all configuration mode commands. An explanation of the described command
-should be added below this statement.
-Replace all variable contents with <value> or something similar.
-
-With those custom commands, it will be possible to render them in a more
-descriptive way in the resulting HTML/PDF manual.
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- .. cfgcmd:: protocols static arp <ipaddress> hwaddr <macaddress>
-
- This will configure a static ARP entry, always resolving `192.0.2.100` to
- `00:53:27:de:23:aa`.
-
-For an inline configuration level command, use ``:cfgcmd:``
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- :cfgcmd:`set interface ethernet eth0`
-
-
-To extract a defaultvalue from the XML definitions add a ``:defaultvalue:``
-to ``.. cfgcmd::`` directive.
-To have this feature locally, the vyos-1x submodule must be initialized before.
-Please be aware to not update the submodule in your PR.
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- .. cfgcmd:: set system conntrack table-size <1-50000000>
- :defaultvalue:
-
- The connection tracking table contains one entry for each connection being
- tracked by the system.
-
-
-opcmd
-"""""
-
-When documenting operational level commands, use the ``.. opcmd::`` directive.
-An explanation of the described command should be added below this statement.
-
-With those custom commands, it is possible to render them in a more
-descriptive way in the resulting HTML/PDF manual.
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- .. opcmd:: show protocols static arp
-
- Display all known ARP table entries spanning across all interfaces
-
-For an inline operational level command, use ``:opcmd:``
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- :opcmd:`add system image`
-
-cmdinclude
-""""""""""
-
-To minimize redundancy, there is a special include directive. It includes a txt
-file and replace the ``{{ var0 }}`` - ``{{ var9 }}`` with the correct value.
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- .. cmdinclude:: /_include/interface-address.txt
- :var0: ethernet
- :var1: eth1
-
-the content of interface-address.txt looks like this
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- .. cfgcmd:: set interfaces {{ var0 }} <interface> address <address | dhcp |
- dhcpv6>
-
- Configure interface `<interface>` with one or more interface
- addresses.
-
- * **address** can be specified multiple times as IPv4 and/or IPv6
- address, e.g. 192.0.2.1/24 and/or 2001:db8::1/64
- * **dhcp** interface address is received by DHCP from a DHCP server
- on this segment.
- * **dhcpv6** interface address is received by DHCPv6 from a DHCPv6
- server on this segment.
-
- Example:
-
- .. code-block:: none
-
- set interfaces {{ var0 }} {{ var1 }} address 192.0.2.1/24
- set interfaces {{ var0 }} {{ var1 }} address 192.0.2.2/24
- set interfaces {{ var0 }} {{ var1 }} address 2001:db8::ffff/64
- set interfaces {{ var0 }} {{ var1 }} address 2001:db8:100::ffff/64
-
-vytask
-""""""
-
-When referencing to VyOS Phabricator Tasks, there is a custom Sphinx Markup
-command called ``vytask`` that automatically renders to a proper Phabricator
-URL. This is heavily used in the :ref:`release-notes` section.
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- * :vytask:`T1605` Fixed regression in L2TP/IPsec server
- * :vytask:`T1613` Netflow/sFlow captures IPv6 traffic correctly
-
-
-Forking Workflow
-================
-
-The Forking Workflow is fundamentally different from other popular Git
-workflows. Instead of using a single server-side repository to act as the
-"central" codebase, it gives every developer their own server-side repository.
-This means that each contributor has not one, but two Git repositories: a
-private local one and a public server-side one.
-
-The main advantage of the Forking Workflow is that contributions can be
-integrated without the need for everybody to push to a single central
-repository. Developers push to their own server-side repositories, and only the
-project maintainer can push to the official repository. This allows the
-maintainer to accept commits from any developer without giving them write
-access to the official codebase.
-
-.. note:: Updates to our documentation should be delivered by a GitHub
- pull-request. This requires you already have a GitHub account.
-
-* Fork this project on GitHub https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation/fork
-
-* Clone fork to local machine, then change to that directory
- ``$ cd vyos-documentation``
-
-* Install the requirements ``$ pip install -r requirements.txt``
- (or something similar)
-
-* Create a new branch for your work, use a descriptive name of your work:
- ``$ git checkout -b <branch-name>``
-
-* Make all your changes - please keep our commit rules in mind
- (:ref:`prepare_commit`). This mainly applies to proper commit messages
- describing your change (how and why). Please check out the documentation of
- Sphinx-doc_ or reStructuredText_ if you are not familiar with it. This is used
- for writing our docs. Additional directives how to write in RST can be
- obtained from reStructuredTextDirectives_.
-
-* Check your changes by locally building the documentation ``$ make livehtml``.
- Sphinx will build the html files in the ``docs/_build`` folder. We provide
- you with a Docker container for an easy-to-use user experience. Check the
- README.md_ file of this repository.
-
-* View modified files by calling ``$ git status``. You will get an overview of
- all files modified by you. You can add individual files to the Git Index in
- the next step.
-
-* Add modified files to Git index ``$ git add path/to/filename`` or add all
- unstaged files ``$ git add .``. All files added to the Git index will be part
- of you following Git commit.
-
-* Commit your changes with the message, ``$ git commit -m "<commit message>"``
- or use ``$ git commit -v`` to have your configured editor launched. You can
- type in a commit message. Again please make yourself comfortable without
- rules (:ref:`prepare_commit`).
-
-* Push commits to your GitHub project: ``$ git push -u origin <branch-name>``
-
-* Submit pull-request. In GitHub visit the main repository and you should
- see a banner suggesting to make a pull request. Fill out the form and
- describe what you do.
-
-* Once pull requests have been approved, you may want to locally update
- your forked repository too. First you'll have to add a second remote
- called `upstream` which points to our main repository. ``$ git remote add
- upstream https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation.git``
-
- Check your configured remote repositories:
-
- .. code-block:: none
-
- $ git remote -v
- origin https://github.com/<username>/vyos-documentation.git (fetch)
- origin https://github.com/<username>/vyos.documentation.git (push)
- upstream https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation.git (fetch)
- upstream https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation.git (push)
-
- Your remote repo on Github is called ``origin``, while the original repo you
- have forked is called ``upstream``. Now you can locally update your forked
- repo.
-
- .. code-block:: none
-
- $ git fetch upstream
- $ git checkout current
- $ git merge upstream/current
-
-* If you also want to update your fork on GitHub, use the following: ``$ git
- push origin current``
-
-.. stop_vyoslinter
-
-.. _Sphinx-doc: https://www.sphinx-doc.org
-.. _reStructuredText: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/index.html
-.. _reStructuredTextDirectives: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html
-.. _README.md: https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation/blob/current/README.md
-.. _Dockerfile: https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation/blob/current/docker/Dockerfile
-.. _Grammarly: https://www.grammarly.com/
-.. include:: /_include/common-references.txt
-
-.. start_vyoslinter