The following products are used in the maintenance of the documentation:
This is the authoring language that is used while write individual topics.
This is the document production toolkit. It is used to create documents that include the topics written in reStructuredText.
The project contains the make files for both Linux (make.sh) and Windows (make.bat) so you can use whichever operating system you wish when working on the docs.
These files run the Sphinx build and create the documentation output in the build folder. The build folder is deleted prior to each run so it should be considered as a temporary file store.
It should not be put in git.
The documentation sources are held in git.
https://github.com/apachecloudstack/consolidated-documentation.git is the new consolidated documentation
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-docs-admin.git is the current admin manual.
This is the plug-in that supports the maintenance and production of documents in Eclipse.
It is called Rest Editor and the group name is org.psem2m.eclipse.rest.editor.feature.group
It can be downloaded from the Eclipse Marketplace as the Rest Editor 1.0.5
The drawings for the new documentation are created using Open Office Draw.
The sources are now kept with the text in the git repo under source/_static/image_sources.
The sources for the drawings in the previous manual are lost.
VRT network drawing extension for Open Office are used to create the drawings. This may be downoaded and added to OpenOffice as an extension. The symbols will appear in Draw's Gallery.
There is an explanation about how to use them on Artifact Software's technical blog.