nextcloud / nextcloud/documentation

Easy citation of Nextcloud manuals

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1. to develop enhancement manual: admin manual: developer manual: user meta
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Description

Github could help us ease the citation of our manuals for people who cite our docs in their scientific paper: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-citation-files

Ref https://citation-file-format.github.io/ for the format

Challenges

  • We have three manuals in one repo
  • We can probably not list the real authors because
    • Changes constantly and goes out of sync
    • The list of authors would be very long

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Read GitHub's citation-file guidance and the Citation File Format reference first. Inspect how the three manuals are organized in this repository, then decide what shared project metadata can represent them without a constantly outdated author list. Done means a valid citation file supports citing all three manuals and matches the chosen metadata.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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