Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of QtWebKitDocContrib


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Jun 22, 2010 1:45:25 AM (14 years ago)
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    2 http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/DocManual
     2= Contributing documentation to QtWebKit =
     3
     4UNDER CONSTRUCTION! This wiki page contains the information that is relevant for technical writers contributing documentation to QtWebKit.
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     6QtWebKit comes with extensive documentation for C++ developers, and we'd like to extend the documentation also for web developers.
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     8The documentation sources are in qdoc format, stored together with the source code in the WebKit SVN. Documentation contributions are submitted to the project similarly as source code contributions -- for instance, documentation changes need to be reviewed before they are committed.
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     10The C++ API documentation is included in line in the C++ source files. Standalone documentation articles are in the WebKit/qt/docs directory.
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     12The qdoc markup is a simple wiki-like format. The qdoc tool is documented here: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/DocManual. For Windows users, the easiest way to get the qdoc3 command line tool is to install the Qt SDK for Windows and add the bin directory to the PATH.
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     14== Checking out the sources ==
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     16Since the documentation is stored together with the source code, also technical writes need to check out the sources. In this wiki, we describe how to do this using the [http://gitorious.org/qtwebkit public git repository]
     17hosted at [http://gitorious.org/qtwebkit Gitorious.org]. This is a mirror of the WebKit SVN repository.
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     19{{{
     20git clone git://gitorious.org/webkit/webkit.git
     21}}}
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     23To see the remote branches you just fetched do:
     24{{{
     25git branch -r
     26}}}
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     28For the tags simply do:
     29{{{
     30git tag
     31}}}
     32
     33And to switch to a branch or a tag simply use {{{git checkout}}}
     34
     35== Submitting a documentation contribution ==
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     37When using the git repository to access the sources, the steps to submit a patch are roughly as follows. Please see the WebKit project's page about [http://webkit.org/coding/contributing.html contributing] for more information.
     38 * Make your changes in the webkit source code directory. Typically, you would change  existing qdoc files or create new qdoc files.
     39 * Run the {{{WebKitTools/Scripts/prepare-ChangeLog}}} script to create an entry for your changes in each relevant ChangeLog file.
     40 * Edit the ChangeLog files reported by the prepare-ChangeLog script:
     41   * If you work on a task without bug report on bugs.webkit.org yet, create a bug report. Use the severity "Enhancement" if your patch is an improvement and not related to a bug.
     42   * Add a short description and paste the bug URL below it. Add an extra line and a detailed description if necessary.
     43   * Precede the short description with "[Qt]" since your documentation patch is specific to the Qt port of WebKit.
     44   * The description text should be the same in all ChangeLog files.
     45   * Keep the "Reviewed by NOBODY (OOPS!)." line in the ChangeLog files, it will be edited by the bot or person that will commit your fix.
     46 * Do a {{{git diff > patchname.patch}}} to create your patch (use {{{--cached}}} if you first did a {{{git add}}} to put your changes in the git index)
     47 * Attach the patch to the bug report, set the {{{review}}} flag to '?' and the {{{commit-queue}}} flag to '?'
     48 * Wait :)
     49
     50== Building the documentation articles  ==
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     52To build the QtWebKit documentation simply run {{{make docs}}} in your build directory, i.e. {{{WebKitBuild/Release}}}. The output will be generated in HTML in the {{{doc/html}}} subdirectory.
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     54If you also need to work on the C++ API documentation that refers to the Qt API documentation, then you need to build Qt from sources. See http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitContrib for more information.
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     56== Communication ==
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     58We can use the QtWebKit [http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt webkit-qt Mailing List] and the #qtwebkit IRC channel on freenode.net to discuss documentation, too.