[petsc-dev] [DocTip!] #3 CI docs build and preview

[Mark Adams]

This is nice.
I see "view latest app" in the pipeline box and you can edit/commit in the
browser also.

On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 10:10 AM Patrick Sanan <patrick.sanan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> All MRs now build all the documentation. This is done with the
> "docs-review" job (defined in .gitlab-ci.yml ) . There is special logic
> associated with the "docs-only" label: if you add this to your MR, the
> usual heavy library tests will be skipped, and the docs will be built
> without you having to manually "un-pause" the pipelines each time you
> update the MR.
>
> Jed showed us a nice approach where the results of this build are deployed
> to GitLab pages, allowing us to use a "Review App" to see the documentation
> build corresponding to the MR branch.
>
> Practically, this allows you to simply click "view app" on the MR page and
> you'll be taken to a complete version of the site (as on petsc.org).
>
> You may still want to build the docs locally if you want to iterate (more)
> quickly, as this allows you to quickly regenerate them after making changes
> (as opposed to the many minutes docs-review takes), and keep open a web
> browser pointing to your local build.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know a simple way to reliably preview a single .rst
> file (as you might be used to from working with some Markdown-based tools).
>
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