Muawia Khan 0cf46b331f Verify and fix BDB multi node deployment guide
- Documentation support to add a new BDB node to an existing
  replica set, using x.509 certificates and SSL/TSL connections, across
  geographically dispersed clusters.
- Fix some documentation issues and add more references i.e.
  specifically about signing of MongoDB member certificates.
- Minor fixes for nginx-https-dep.yaml(invalid configMap var)
- Reconfigure nginx keep_alive between MongoDB front and backend ports.
- Editor removed whitespaces
2017-08-16 10:27:17 +02:00
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2017-06-15 17:04:51 +02:00

The BigchainDB Documentation Strategy

  • Include explanatory comments and docstrings in your code. Write Google style docstrings with a maximum line width of 119 characters.
  • For quick overview and help documents, feel free to create README.md or other X.md files, written using GitHub-flavored Markdown. Markdown files render nicely on GitHub. We might auto-convert some .md files into a format that can be included in the long-form documentation.
  • We use Sphinx to generate the long-form documentation in various formats (e.g. HTML, PDF).
  • We also use Sphinx to generate Python code documentation (from docstrings and possibly other sources).
  • We also use Sphinx to document all REST APIs, with the help of the httpdomain extension.

How to Generate the HTML Version of the Long-Form Documentation

If you want to generate the HTML version of the long-form documentation on your local machine, you need to have Sphinx and some Sphinx-contrib packages installed. To do that, go to a subdirectory of docs (e.g. docs/server) and do:

pip install -r requirements.txt

You can then generate the HTML documentation in that subdirectory by doing:

make html

It should tell you where the generated documentation (HTML files) can be found. You can view it in your web browser.