Fedora Modularity Documentation

Wiki pages are great for collaboration. But they are not that great in getting people’s attention. They can also become pretty messy and hard to navigate trough when using multiple pages that are related to each other – like documentation – which was what we had there. We needed something better. Something that would make it easy to go trough multiple pages of documentation. Something that would have a simple landing page explaining what we do. And having a simple way to review the changes people make before publishing them would be also great.

I knew we wanted something better, but I didn’t know what exactly. I also didn’t want to invent yet another way to build docs. So I looked around, and found the Fedora Release Engineering documentation. It’s hosted in Pagure Docs, it’s built with Python Sphinx, and it also used to be a wiki. And I got inspired!

So I created some drafts, made a proposal, and convinced people from the Modularity Working Group that we need a cool website. And then I just built it. Using the same tech as the Fedora Release Engineering team – Python Sphinx to build, Pagure Docs to host.

But because I’m a wanna-be designer, I also created a logo, and wrote a custom Sphinx template including a simple landing page that helps people quickly understand what Modularity is about.

And I’m happy to announce that the new Fedora Modularity documentation website has been published today!

To edit the documentation, please send pull-requests against our source repository. And maybe get in touch if you like the project!