This repository contains the source code for the user documentation for GoCD. The documentation is available at https://docs.gocd.org/current/.

We encourage you to contribute to GoCD. For information on contributing to GoCD, please see our contributor's guide. A lot of useful information like links to user documentation, design documentation, mailing lists etc. can be found in the resources section.

To make changes to GoCD's documentation, you can do this:

1. Install all dependencies

   The dependencies for building the documentation are:

   • nodejs (known to work with v16)
   • Ruby (known to work with 2.7)
   • Bundler gem (known to work with 2.1.4)

   Then run this to get all the dependent gems:

   bundle

2. To install npm dependencies

   npm install

3. Run the documentation on the local server (defaults to http://localhost:1313)

   npm run index
   npm run serve

The contents of the public directory needs to be pushed out to the gh-pages branch of the repository.

bundle exec rake publish

Check the latest changes deployed here.

npm run index

npm run hugo [arguments]

Assuming current stable is 17.4.0, you are about to release 17.5.0 and the next version is going to be 17.6.0, you would execute -

CURRENT_VERSION=17.4.0 VERSION_TO_RELEASE=17.5.0  NEXT_VERSION=17.6.0 REMOTE_NAME=upstream rake bump_version

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