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Tim Abbott 35a5cd1e65 docs: Add new summary section to the release lifecycle page. 2021-05-05 18:24:17 -07:00
Alya Abbott 279f7b1c8d user docs: Create separate "Code blocks" user documentation page.
* Move the extended documentation of code blocks to a separate page.
* Merge "code playgrounds" documentation to be a section of that page.
* Document copy widget on code blocks.
* This commit changes how we refer to "```python" type syntax for code
  blocks. Instead of being called a syntax highlighting label, this is
  now referred to as a "language tag", since it serves both syntax
  highlighting and playgrounds.
* Remap all the links.
* Advertise this new page in various places that previously did not have a link.
2021-05-05 16:11:21 -07:00
Adam Birds ceb4b239c4 docs: Update install docs to document the install options correctly.
Update `docs/production/install.md` and
`docs/production/deployment.md` to document the install flags that can
be used as part of the installer more clearly.

Fixes #18122.
2021-04-27 19:44:05 -07:00
Tim Abbott f3abe73e72 docs: Use our Digital Ocean marketplace referral code. 2021-04-20 10:45:26 -07:00
Tim Abbott 68be06deda docs: Clean up installer troubleshooting help guide.
* Remove references to the defunct zulip-help Google Group.
* Mention how to create a code block.
* Use nicer markdown syntax for links.
2021-04-01 12:10:30 -07:00
Aman Agrawal c685d36821 hipchat_import: Remove tool from codebase.
Remove functions and scripts used by HipChat import tool and
those which will no longer be required in future.
2020-12-23 08:28:49 -08:00
Aman Agrawal 62d721e859 docs: Remove HipChat migration guide.
As of Feb 15th 2019, Hipchat Cloud and Stride
have reached End Of Life and are no longer
supported by Atlassian. Since it is almost 2 years
now we can remove the migration guides.
2020-12-23 15:43:13 +05:30
Alex Vandiver 1f7132f50d docs: Standardize on PostgreSQL, not Postgres. 2020-10-28 11:55:16 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg c155403884 docs: Fix various capitalization errors.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2020-08-11 10:25:52 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg 7ee974729b docs: Replace Digital Ocean with DigitalOcean.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2020-07-30 11:30:43 -07:00
Tim Abbott 71078adc50 docs: Update URLs to use https://zulip.com.
We're migrating to using the cleaner zulip.com domain, which involves
changing all of our links from ReadTheDocs and other places to point
to the cleaner URL.
2020-06-08 18:10:45 -07:00
xpac1985 65fe1a9eed
docs: Add info about zulip-announce RSS feed to install docs.
The mailing list can also be subscribed to via RSS/Atom feeds, I just wanted to make that information easier accessible.
2020-01-31 17:24:43 -08:00
David Rosa 87a2831b83 docs: Split maintain-secure-upgrade into dedicated docs.
* Moves "Management commands" to a top-level section.
* Moves "Scalability" as a subsection at the bottom of "Requirements".
* Moves "Monitoring" as a subsections at the bottom of "Troubleshooting".
* Replaces "API and your Zulip URL" with a link to REST API docs.  This
  documentation text has been irrelevant for some time.
* Removes maintain-secure-upgrade from the TOC but the file remains to
  avoid breaking old links from release blog posts and emails.
2019-11-22 10:21:20 -08:00
David Rosa af4d7b4b52 docs: Merge "Upgrading" with modifying-zulip.
Merges the "Upgrades" section from production/maintain-secure-upgrade.md
with production/modifying-zulip.md.

Contains significant textual changes by tabbott to read more clearly.
2019-11-05 17:43:00 -08:00
David Rosa dc5dbcbee3 docs: Merge "Backups" with export-and-import.
- Merges the "Backups" section from production/maintain-secure-upgrade.md
  with existing "Backups" section in production/export-and-import.md.
- Cleans up and makes content more clear/explicit.
- Adds short missing section on how to use wal-e configuration.
- Removes a lot of previously duplicate text explaining the difference between
  the tools.
- Various textual tweaks by tabbott.

Fixes #13184 and resolves #293.
2019-10-30 17:22:02 -07:00
David Rosa bdbc384de5 docs: Reduce the number of apparently broken links on github.
- Updated 260+ links from ".html" to ".md" to reduce the number of issues
reported about hyperlinks not working when viewing docs on Github.
- Removed temporary workaround that suppressed all warnings reported
by sphinx build for every link ending in ".html".

Details:
The recent upgrade to recommonmark==0.5.0 supports auto-converting
".md" links to ".html" so that the resulting HTML output is correct.

Notice that links pointing to a heading i.e. "../filename.html#heading",
were not updated because recommonmark does not auto-convert them.
These links do not generate build warnings and do not cause any issues.
However, there are about ~100 such links that might still get misreported
as broken links.  This will be a follow-up issue.

Background:
docs: pip upgrade recommonmark and CommonMark #13013
docs: Allow .md links between doc pages #11719

Fixes #11087.
2019-10-07 12:08:27 -07:00
David Rosa 4afdfa6055 docs: Place warning at the top of every page in /latest/production.
- Added warning block to dev docs using _templates/layout.html
- Removed copy-pasted warning from install.md and requirements.md
- Removed unreleased tag in docs/conf.py that's no longer used

Useful ref: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/templating.html

Fixes #13056.
2019-08-28 15:31:47 -07:00
Tim Abbott e6340c6e54 docs: Make production unreleased documentation notices more visible.
Previously, Google might take you to /latest rather than /stable, and
you might get information about the next release, not the current one.

Fixes #13056.
2019-08-23 16:33:46 -07:00
Tim Abbott 934d7c2f0f docs: Fix development version warning.
This was sadly broken by the comment Greg added to document how it
works :(.
2019-07-26 17:29:21 -07:00
Rishi Gupta 6b350f092d docs: Make the intro to Production Installation less scary. 2019-07-20 14:39:15 -07:00
Greg Price b6ce366d61 docs: Add a comment explaining the fancy conditional-include syntax.
We only use it in this one place, so a comment right here seems the
most discoverable place to put it.  If we started using it more...
probably the section in docs/documentation/overview.md about the
dev/sysadmin docs system should split off into a new file, and this
info would become a subsection there.
2019-06-15 09:35:04 -07:00
Mohit Maroliya e16d721921 docs: Fix a few typos in documentation. 2019-04-10 10:44:35 -07:00
Tim Abbott abc7a00d35 Revert "docs: Update .html links to .md."
This doesn't work without the CommonMark upgrade.

This reverts commit c87893feea.
2019-04-05 17:58:54 -07:00
Samuel Searles-Bryant c87893feea docs: Update .html links to .md.
Sphinx/ReadTheDocs supports automatically translating links written as
to `.md` files to point to the corresponding `.html` files, so this
migration does not change the resulting HTML output in ReadTheDocs.
But it does fix apparent broken links on GitHub.

This doesn't prevent people from reading the documentation on GitHub
(so doesn't mitigate the fact that some rtd-specific syntax does not
render properly on GH), but it will prevent us from getting erroneous
issues reported about the hyperlinks not working.

Fixes: #11087.
2019-04-05 17:16:25 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg e0a51948d9 script: Add ready-to-run tooling for doing backups.
Based on an initial version by Tim Abbott (#11204).

Fixes #552.
2019-02-11 17:30:37 -08:00
Tim Abbott 7824ce32a0 docs: Advertise HipChat/Slack import tools in installer docs.
This should help avoid confusion about when to use the import tools.
2019-01-16 15:15:01 -08:00
Tim Abbott 534bf8f806 docs: Make more clear how installing from Git works.
The previous discussion made it sound like this did a development
environment installation.
2019-01-07 19:16:59 -08:00
Tim Abbott 50be5ceae3 docs: Document our now-official production Docker image. 2018-10-16 15:27:03 -07:00
Tim Abbott 3039f11dd4 docs: Document installing Zulip from GitHub.
This has been unofficially supported for a long time, and is handy for
common use cases, so worth documenting.
2018-10-16 15:19:51 -07:00
Greg Price 9dbb5561b1 docs: Use `sudo -s` to get a root shell without changing directory.
The `-i` is for "initial", creating a login shell -- which means
cd'ing to root's homedir.  That defeats the line after this one.
2018-09-25 13:15:06 -07:00
Rishi Gupta a04d1e3d98 docs: Update intros to production install pages.
We should cut to the chase where we can.
2018-08-21 11:32:16 -07:00
Tim Abbott 40635beb23 docs: Document production support for Debian Stretch and Ubuntu Bionic.
Fixes #9197.
2018-06-05 08:09:29 -07:00
Abhigyan Khaund fda786952e documentation: Migrate all CZO stream links to new stream URL style
This includes changes like changing CZO stream URLs from new.20members
to 95-new-members.
2018-05-24 15:15:34 -07:00
Tim Abbott 9aee4c8c8e docs: Add production documentation on deployment options.
This describes the basics of installing Zulip in more complex
production environments using multiple services.

Fixes #1235.
2018-05-22 11:31:48 -07:00
Greg Price d99ec6426d install docs: Move requirements tl;dr to requirements doc.
This further reduces the wall of text on the install instructions.
Simultaneously it lightens up the pressure on this summary to be quite
so terse; expand a couple of items into multiple bullets (yet with
fewer words!) for greater readability.
2018-03-06 19:43:02 -08:00
Greg Price c1d5364077 install docs: Consolidate follow-up steps.
Now down to just 4 steps!

This version tries to prioritize: just two items that we really want
all admins to look at even if they aren't already mentally committed
to running a big production service and reading all the docs.
Namely, the two required in order to really try out Zulip effectively
with one's colleagues.
2018-03-06 19:43:02 -08:00
Greg Price 526e301177 install docs: Tighten "create organization" step.
The screenshots weren't doing much good without being embedded in the
text... and in fact, looking at them for I think the first time,
they're badly out of date with the app.  So cut them.

We might add screenshots later, but on the other hand if we do a good
job with the forms themselves, they should be superfluous.
2018-03-06 19:43:02 -08:00
Greg Price 4edc121b49 install docs: Move background details to after main flow too.
This further shortens the wall of text inside the instructions.

Note that thanks to embedded reST, we now have the power to provide
custom anchors at section headings!  Which in particular means this
link won't break if we later tweak the wording of this heading.
2018-03-06 19:43:02 -08:00
Greg Price 53f80336ee install docs: Consolidate troubleshooting at bottom.
This helps shorten the wall of text between the start of the
instructions and the end.  Conversely, now that there are fewer
followup steps, the troubleshooting section at the end isn't so
far away to point.
2018-03-06 19:43:02 -08:00
Greg Price 0505036965 install docs: Reduce prose in requirements bullets. 2018-03-06 19:43:02 -08:00
Greg Price f22712e8e8 install: Go straight through by default.
This flips the experimental `--express` option to be the default.

We retain the old behavior, where the script exits before
`initialize-database`, as an option `--no-init-db`; it might be useful
in e.g. a migration scenario (from a Zulip install elsewhere, or
another chat system) where the admin wants to set up the database
separately.

The install instructions are adjusted to match, getting shorter by two
steps and a bunch of words.  I think this opens up opportunities to
refactor the text to simplify things further, too, but leaving that
for another commit.

Also tweak the "production" test suite to match.
2018-03-06 19:43:02 -08:00
Tim Abbott c732313c36 docs: Rename customize.html to settings.html.
This is a better description of what this is for.
2018-02-19 09:55:49 -08:00
Greg Price 6aa7a1b8d2 install docs: Document streamlined self-signed-cert flow.
This is easy now, so make it known to admins who are looking for a
fast path for a test install.

Also totally cut the painfully complicated steps for generating a
self-signed cert by hand.  Anyone who actually wants that can find a
hundred explanations on the Web, or can look at our script if they
want to specifically mirror how we do it (which is mercifully much
simpler than this.)
2018-01-23 18:08:52 -08:00
Greg Price bd9340b4db docs: Warn on development version of install instructions. 2018-01-23 10:57:50 -08:00
Greg Price 0cf0c51cad docs: Revise description of main install step.
Bulleted information instead of prose, huzzah!  Also I think we need
to explain the options a bit right here, or at least link to where
they're documented somewhere.  (If the list gets much longer, we'll
want to shift toward the latter.)

Also reorganize existing information a bit, and clean up a couple
of nits.
2018-01-23 10:57:50 -08:00
Tim Abbott 21d8ff14b4 docs: Update documentation to recommend certbot. 2018-01-23 10:57:50 -08:00
Greg Price 011114397b docs: Fix some Markdown links missing a close-paren.
These were just introduced today.
2017-11-16 11:43:19 -08:00
David Rosa Tamsen 7072fa5b37 docs: Reorganize developer docs to improve navigation.
This commit helps reduce clutter on the navigation sidebar.
Creates new directories and moves relevant files into them.
Modifies index.rst, symlinks, and image paths accordingly.

This commit also enables expandable/collapsible navigation items,
renames files in docs/development and docs/production,
modifies /tools/test-documentation so that it overrides a theme setting,
Also updates links to other docs, file paths in the codebase that point
to developer documents, and files that should be excluded from lint tests.

Note that this commit does not update direct links to
zulip.readthedocs.io in the codebase; those will be resolved in an
upcoming follow-up commit (it'll be easier to verify all the links
once this is merged and ReadTheDocs is updated).

Fixes #5265.
2017-11-16 09:45:08 -08:00