Docs: Improve the why and how for the include keyword for CI/CD
What does this MR do?
For the Contribute Challenge 2020 I want to help improve the documentation regarding the CI keywords.
Today I was preparing my GitLab meetup demo, and struggled from creating a symlink for the .gitlab-ci.yml file. I've then found an issue comment suggesting to use include
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I had opened the docs and I needed to read the entire section with all different methods in order to understand how include works and how I might use that for symlinks.
This MR does the following:
- Add the why in the introduction, structured CI config and avoiding clutter is important
- Moves the methods from a list into a table and adding a short description that you immediately know which one you are looking at. Local file, makes sense - remote file, maybe not. Template - ah, that's just the GitLab templates known from the editor. No need to read further.
- Changes the structure a bit moving the important overview on the top
- Moves the templates to the last one,
local
,file
andremote
are equally the same,templates
is different.
Related issues
Author's checklist (required)
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Follow the Documentation Guidelines and Style Guide. -
Apply the documentation label, plus: - The corresponding DevOps stage and group label, if applicable.
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development guidelines when changing docs under
doc/development/*
,CONTRIBUTING.md
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development guidelines and Documentation guidelines when changing docs under
development/documentation/*
. - development guidelines and Description templates (.gitlab/*) when creating/updating issue and MR description templates.
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Assign the designated Technical Writer.
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Update the permissions table. -
Link docs to and from the higher-level index page, plus other related docs where helpful. -
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Add the product tier badge. -
Add/update the feature flag section. -
If you're changing document headings, search doc/*
,app/views/*
, andee/app/views/*
for old headings replacing with the new ones to avoid broken anchors.
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Review by a code reviewer or other selected colleague to confirm accuracy, clarity, and completeness. This can be skipped for minor fixes without substantive content changes.
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Add docs-only when the only files changed are under doc/*
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