Arvados

h1. Documentation

The documentation project is a part of the overall Arvados effort. 

h2. Guides

There are four guides that are being developed to support the use of Arvados: 

* "User Guide":http://doc.arvados.org/user/ - Introductory and tutorial materials for building analysis or web applications using Arvados. 

* "API Reference":http://doc.arvados.org/api/ - REST API methods and resources, the MapReduce job execution environment, permission model, etc.

* "Admin Guide":http://doc.arvados.org/admin/ - Instructions to system administrators for maintaining an Arvados installation.

* "Install Guide":http://doc.arvados.org/install/ - How to install and configure Arvados on the cloud management platform of your choice. 

A web version of the documentation is available at http://doc.arvados.org. 

h2. Documentation Project

The Arvados documentation is written in Markdown, Textile, and HTML. The source code is in the @doc@ directory in the Arvados source tree. We use Jekyll to render HTML pages.

h2. Contributing

Bugs in the documentation can be submitted as "issues":/projects/arvados/issues.

To contribute to the documentation, clone the Arvados source repository, edit, and send pull requests just as you would when contributing program source code.

We do not yet maintain a separate documentation mailing list, so we encourage documentation contributors to join the main developer mailing list.

References for contributors:

* "Markdown syntax":http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

* "Textile syntax":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language)

* "Jekyll usage":https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Usage (Note: Jekyll 0.12.1 auto-refresh "bug":https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/issues/882 and "workaround":http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15591000/jekylls-auto-doesnt-work for devs.)

* "Liquid for designers":https://github.com/shopify/liquid/wiki/liquid-for-designers (template engine)

Contributor quick-start:

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git clone git://github.com/clinicalfuture.com/arvados.git

cd arvados/doc

jekyll --server --auto

# point browser to http://localhost:4000/doc/

vi api/index.md

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