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How to Set Up and Publish Linux Foundation Project Documentation

A practical overview of the LF-Releng documentation workflow: author with Sphinx and reStructuredText, organize ReadTheDocs projects, and configure CI publishing.
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Linux Foundation project teams can use Sphinx and reStructuredText to build documentation, lfdocs-conf for shared dependencies and configuration, and global-jjb templates to automate builds and publishing. The LF-Releng guide also describes organizing a main documentation project with ReadTheDocs subprojects and linking separately built documentation with intersphinx.

How the documentation toolchain fits together

The LF-Releng Project Documentation Guide describes a workflow with four distinct roles:

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  • Sphinx and reStructuredText: the documentation generator and authoring format.
  • lfdocs-conf: a convenience package for common documentation dependencies and configuration.
  • global-jjb: job templates used to build and publish documentation.
  • ReadTheDocs (RTD): the hosted documentation service, with a main project and optional subprojects.

This is the guide’s recommended stack, not a comparison of alternative tools or a claim that these are the only viable choices.

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Organize the main documentation site and subprojects

The guide presents a project-level “documentation” project as a gateway or index for a project’s documentation. Individual documentation sets can be configured as ReadTheDocs subprojects beneath that main project, allowing them to appear under a shared project documentation URL.

When documentation is generated separately but needs links to references in another documentation set, the guide recommends Sphinx’s intersphinx extension. In conf.py, configure a mapping from a local namespace to the external documentation URL. This lets Sphinx resolve cross-references across independently built documentation; it does not combine the underlying documentation sets into one build.

Configure ReadTheDocs and CI publishing

The LF-Releng guide describes a setup sequence involving ReadTheDocs project configuration and the project’s CI-management repository. Follow the current service interface and your project’s CI conventions, since the source is a latest-version guide and its operational details may change.

  1. Create or configure the ReadTheDocs project. The guide specifies an anonymous HTTP Git clone URL for the project repository.
  2. Grant maintenance access. Add lf-rtd as a maintainer of the ReadTheDocs project, as described by the guide.
  3. Configure a subproject when needed. For a documentation set that belongs beneath the main project, configure the corresponding ReadTheDocs child project as a subproject.
  4. Create a generic webhook. Record the project-specific webhook URL and token; the CI job configuration needs these values.
  5. Set the RTD job values in CI management. Add the required values to project.yaml in the project’s ci-management repository, following the project’s established configuration and the current LF-Releng instructions.
  6. Trigger a remerge if applicable. If the relevant lfdocs-conf patches have already merged, the guide says to issue a remerge so the publishing job can push documentation to ReadTheDocs.

The guide identifies the webhook URL and token as project-specific; it does not provide universal values that can be copied between projects. Consult the complete LF-Releng setup guide for its exact configuration context.

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What to verify before publishing

  • Confirm that the repository’s clone URL is accessible in the manner required by the project’s ReadTheDocs configuration.
  • Check that the intended main project and any child documentation projects are associated correctly.
  • Verify the current webhook URL, token, and CI job settings rather than relying on values from another project.
  • Confirm whether a remerge is needed for the project’s merged lfdocs-conf changes and publishing job.

For the broader documentation index, see Linux Foundation Releng Documentation.

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