[OSGeoLive] All OSGeoLive Docs versions online

[Seth G]

Thanks for the feedback and kind words Cameron!

I got the docs from the ISOs - see https://github.com/geographika/OSGeoLive-doc/tree/gh-pages#extraction-process
After further investigation the missing images are due to the files being symlinks. I'm currently looking to see how these could be saved in git. They currently just have the text of the file they link to e.g. https://github.com/geographika/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/gh-pages/6.0/_images/1spatial_sml1.jpg

I didn't know about the current archive on the main site. So there is some duplication of effort, but adding them to a repo hopely has a long term benefit. It also triggered Angelos tracking down the missing full ISOs. 

The latest master docs are already published at https://osgeo.github.io/OSGeoLive-doc/en/index.html and updated whenever a pull request is merged. The recent Appveyor setup should also allow people to see the output of their pull requests (there have been no pull requests recently to check this but it should work). 

I'm hoping to investigate the automated archiving of new releases which should help updating the main site,

Seth

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On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Hi Seth,
> 
> Sorry for the delayed response. I'm really impressed with what you have 
> achieved. Well done.
> 
> More comments inline.
> 
> On 12/12/19 11:19 pm, Seth G wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been collating the various documentation releases for OSGeo-Live and adding into my fork at fork is at https://github.com/geographika/OSGeoLive-doc/tree/gh-pages
> 
> Nice work. How are you creating these pages?
> 
> It seems that image links are broken for releases 6.0 to 10.5. Do you 
> know why that is? (I'm suspecting it might be because we changed our 
> directory structure around version 10.5 and our build process would have 
> been different.)
> 
> Have you noticed that we have some of the old doc sites stored in our 
> archived, and referenced from:
> 
> https://live.osgeo.org/en/prior_applications.html
> 
> (You can actually see the entire doc websites from 5.0 to 10.5
> 
> https://live.osgeo.org/archive/5.0/en/index.html
> 
> https://live.osgeo.org/archive/10.5/en/index.html
> 
> >
> > This can then be automatically published by GitHub pages - I've currently set this up to publish to https://osgeolive.geographika.co.uk/
> >
> > The archive branch could be easily added via a pull request to the main project.
> >
> > The branch can be downloaded or cloned in git to publish on any server. One possibility to consider is to automate adding a build of the docs for a new tagged release using Travis. Deployment of the latests docs would then be a simple git clone rather than requiring a manual build an upload.
> 
> I'm super excited by the potential of this. One of our pain points in 
> documentation has been that we haven't had a current, nightly build that 
> people can see as soon as they update docs.
> 
> It would be great if we could set this up. Would you be interested in 
> setting up a:
> 
> live.osgeo.org/dev/... (or similar) for the latest docs?
> 
> >
> > If anyone has a v1.0 docs copy please let me know!
> 
> Version 1.0 was effectively a test run of OSGeoLive (called the Live DVD 
> at the time). Our aim was to have OSGeoLive ready for FOSS4G 2009 in 
> Australia, and we had an early version ready for FOSS4G 2008 in South 
> Africa.
> 
> While I can't remember for sure, I don't think had developed 
> documentation for the 1.0 release.
> 
> Here is a blog post / press release from the time:
> 
> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2008/09/geofoss-livedvd-test-it-before-we-burn.html
> 
> 
> >
> > Thoughts on the above welcome,
> Super impressed.
> >
> > Seth
> >
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