ALCF User Guide

Source for the documentation located at https://docs.alcf.anl.gov/

Contributing to documentation

Python environment

To build documentation locally, you need a Python environment with mkdocs installed. Check that Python 3.6+ is installed:

$ python --version
Python 3.8.3

Then create a new virtual env to isolate the mkdocs installation:

$ python -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate

Git

Using Git's SSH protocol. Make sure you add your SSH public key to your GitHub account:

$ git clone git@github.com:argonne-lcf/user-guides.git
$ cd user-guides
$ git submodule init; git submodule update

Installing MkDocs

To install mkdocs in the current environment:

$ cd user-guides
$ make install-dev

Preview the docs locally and test for errors

Run mkdocs serve or make serve to auto-build and serve the docs for preview in your web browser:

$ make serve

GitHub Actions are used to automatically validate all changes in pull requests before they are merged, by executing mkdocs build --strict. The --strict flag will print out warnings and return a nonzero code if any of a number of checks fail (e.g. broken relative links, orphaned Markdown pages thtat are missing from the navigation sidebar, etc.). To see if your changes will pass these tests, run the following command locally:

$ make build-docs

Working on documentation

• All commits must have a commit message
• Create your own branch from the main branch. For this writing we are using YOURBRANCH as an example:

$ cd user-guides
$ git fetch --all
$ git checkout main
$ git pull origin main
$ git checkout -b YOURBRANCH
$ git push -u origin YOURBRANCH

• Commit your changes to the remote repo:

$ cd user-guides
$ git status                         # check the status of the files you have editted
$ git commit -a -m "Updated docs"    # preferably one issue per commit
$ git status                         # should say working tree clean
$ git push origin YOURBRANCH         # push YOURBRANCH to origin
$ git checkout main                  # move to the local main
$ git pull origin main               # pull the remote main to your local machine
$ git checkout YOURBRANCH            # move back to your local branch
$ git merge main                     # merge the local develop into **YOURBRANCH** and
                                     # make sure NO merge conflicts exist
$ git push origin YOURBRANCH         # push the changes from local branch up to your remote branch

• Create merge request from https://github.com/argonne-lcf/user-guides from YOURBRANCH to main branch.