Metron's Site Book is an attempt at producing documentation that is:

• Versioned and reviewed
• Tied to code versions
• Highly local to the code being documented

The idea is that a release manager would build the site-book (following the instructions below), then publish it from the public Metron site as the docs for the new released version. Older site-book versions should remain available for users that need them.

The site-book is also part of the Maven site lifecycle, and will be included by the full site from the top level. However, the site as a whole takes longer than just the site-book:

To build only the book, do the following:

In any git clone of metron containing the site-book subdirectory,

cd site-book
mvn site

It only takes a few seconds. You may now view your copy of the book in a browser by opening

file:///your/path/to/metron/site-book/target/site/index.html

On a Mac, you can just type the following on the command line

open target/site/index.html

• Copies all .md files from the code directory tree into the site tree
• Performs some transformations on them
• Generates the nav tree structure and labels
• Happens during the site:pre-site phase of Maven.

• Called by 'generate-md.sh'
• Does transforms within the text of each file
  • Converts the Github-MD dialect of markdown into the doxia-markdown dialect

• Doxia boilerplate, tweaked for our specific needs