seL4 Documentation site.

These are the sources for the seL4 Documentation site located at https://docs.sel4.systems. It is for cooperatively developing and sharing documentation on seL4.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for information on how to contribute. TL;DR click edit on the page in GitHub, make your changes and then submit a pull request.

Ask on the mailing list or open an issue if something doesn't make sense.

We've tried to make sure the hosted site is WCAG 2.0 AA compliant. Please let us know if we have missed something. This is how we test it.

Diagnosing a problem

Our documentation is contained in a collection of Markdown files stored in this repository. We use Jekyll to generate a static html website that is then hosted on GitHub pages. Our continuous integration is configured to regenerate and update the live site whenever a pull request is merged. There is a timestamp in the source that indicates when it was last generated. Additionally, each page has a timestamp and revision hash from when it was last updated located in the footer based on the git history.

Our markdown pages are rendered using Kramdown, a ruby based markdown converter that is configured to interpret the markdown files (.md) as GitHub flavoured markdown (GFM). We are currently using the jekyll-theme-bootstrap theme that provides a sass implementation of bootstrap. Our custom styling is contained in assets/css/style.scss. HTML templates are in either _layouts or _includes.

Requirements

Building the site

ruby-bundler must be installed

Linters

Linting checks require the linters to be installed.

HTML output checking using tidy: make check_html_output
Liquid syntax checking using liquid-linter: make check_liquid_syntax

Building the docsite

To build and host locally:

git submodule init
git submodule update

# If this doesn't work see: https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-your-github-pages-site-locally-with-jekyll/
bundle install

make serve
#   Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/
#   Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.

Or with docker:

make docker_build
make docker_serve

Makefile and JEKYLL_ENV=production version

Jekyll provides an environment flag for providing some content only in a production environment.

One way we use this is to show data generated by rules in the Makefile and saved in _data/generated.yml. If you want to serve the site locally in production mode there are make rules for this. You will need to call the make rule to generate the _data/generated.yml also.

Quick compliance, style and formatting checks

WCAG 2.0 AA conformance

There is a make rule to check conformance to all testable statements from the guidelines. make check_conformance. It requires the site to be hosted locally (using make serve) and a local server of Automated Accessibility Testing Tool (AATT).

make check_conformance will output a file named conformance_results.xml which is a junit testsuite output file that will contain a testcase for each generated html file of the site. A make rule make check_conformance_errors will grep for failing testcases and output the html page name. The idea here is to detect if any pages are failing and then manually using the AATT tool's webinterface to check what parts of the page violate the guidelines.

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