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+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,84 +1,4 @@
-# Contributor's Guide
-
-1. fork the project on GitHub https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation
-2. clone the fork to your local machine
- ```shell
- $ git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/vyos-documentation
-3. cd to your new local directory vyos-documentation
-4. create a a new branch for your work. You can use a name that describes what you do.
- ```shell
- $ git checkout -b fix-vxlan-typo
- ```
-5. make your changes.
-
- Please check the documentation if you aren't familiar with [sphinx-doc](http://http://www.sphinx-doc.org) or [reStructuredText](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/index.html)
-
- Note the following RFCs, which describe the reserved public IP addresses and autonomous system numbers for the documentation. [RFC5737](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737), [RFC3849](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3849), [RFC5389](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5398), [RFC7042](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7042)
-
- * 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 don't use other public address space.
-
-6. Check your changes by locally building the documentation
- ```shell
- $ cd docs
- $ make html
- ```
- Sphinx will build the html files in the docs/_build folder
-
-7. add the modified files
- ```shell
- $ git add path/to/filname
- ```
- or add all unstaged files
- ```shell
- $ git add .
- ````
-8. commit your changes
- ```shell
- $ git commit -m "rename vxlan set syntax"
- ```
-9. push your commits to your GitHub project:
-
- ```shell
- $ git push -u origin fix-vxlan-typo
- ```
-10. submit a 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.
-
-11. once pull resquests have been approved, you may want to locally update your forked repository too. First you'll have to add the remote upstream repository.
- ```shell
- $ git remote add upstream https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation.git
- ```
-
- Check your configured remote repositories.
- ```shell
- $ git remote -v
- origin https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/vyos-documentation.git (fetch)
- origin https://github.com/YOUR_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.
- ```shell
- $ git fetch upstream
- $ git checkout master
- $ git merge upstream/master
- ```
- If you want to update your fork on Github too:
- ```shell
- $ git push origin master
- ```
+# Documentation Contribution
+Please follow the guid in our documentation. It can be found here:
+https://vyos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/documentation.html
diff --git a/docs/contributing/documentation.rst b/docs/contributing/documentation.rst
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index 00000000..138dff05
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@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+.. _build:
+
+Documentation
+=============
+
+As most software projects we also have a lack in documentation. We encourage
+every VyOS user to help us improve our documentation. This will not only be
+benefical four you (when reading something up) but also for the whole world.
+
+If you are willing to contribute to our documentation this is the definate
+guid how to do so.
+
+Guide
+-----
+
+Updates to our documentation should be delivered by a GitHub pull-request. In
+order to create a pull-request you need to fork our documentation code first.
+This requires you already have a GitHub account.
+
+1. Fork the project on GitHub https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation/fork
+2. Clone your fork to your local machine
+ ```shell
+ $ git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/vyos-documentation
+ ```
+3. Change to your new local directory vyos-documentation
+4. Create a new branch for your work. You can use a name that describes what
+ you do
+ ```shell
+ $ git checkout -b fix-vxlan-typo
+ ```
+5. Make all your changes - please keep out commit rules in mind. This mainly
+ applies to a proper commit message describing your change. Please check the
+ documentation if you aren't familiar with
+ [sphinx-doc](http://http://www.sphinx-doc.org) or
+ [reStructuredText](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/index.html)
+
+ Note the following RFCs, which describe the reserved public IP addresses and
+ autonomous system numbers for the documentation: RFC5737_, RFC3849_,
+ RFC5389_ and RFC7042_:
+
+ * 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 don't use other public address space.
+
+6. Check your changes by locally building the documentation
+ ```shell
+ $ cd docs; make html
+ ```
+ Sphinx will build the html files in the ``docs/_build`` folder
+
+7. Add modified files to Git index
+ ```shell
+ $ git add path/to/filname
+ ```
+ or add all unstaged files
+ ```shell
+ $ git add .
+ ````
+
+8. Commit your changes
+ ```shell
+ $ git commit -m "rename vxlan set syntax"
+ ```
+
+9. Push your commits to your GitHub project:
+ ```shell
+ $ git push -u origin fix-vxlan-typo
+ ```
+
+10. 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.
+
+11. Once pull resquests have been approved, you may want to locally update your
+ forked repository too. First you'll have to add the remote upstream
+ repository.
+
+ ```shell
+ $ git remote add upstream https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation.git
+ ```
+
+ Check your configured remote repositories.
+ ```shell
+ $ git remote -v
+ origin https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/vyos-documentation.git (fetch)
+ origin https://github.com/YOUR_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.
+ ```shell
+ $ git fetch upstream
+ $ git checkout master
+ $ git merge upstream/master
+ ```
+
+ If you want to update your fork on GitHub, too use the following:
+
+ ```shell
+ $ git push origin master
+ ```
+
+.. _RFC5737: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737
+.. _RFC3849: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3849
+.. _RFC5389: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5398
+.. _RFC7042: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7042
+
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 81c1dd3a..9d27a504 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -77,13 +77,13 @@ Contributing
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
+ contributing/build-vyos
contributing/issues_features
contributing/development
contributing/vyos_cli
contributing/coding_guidelines
contributing/upstream-packages
- contributing/build-vyos
-
+ contribution/documentation
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