[dash-dev] Automated doc builds..

[Miles Parker <milesparker@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been thinking about putting my mediawiki documenation builds on the build server. The neat thing about that is that I could theoretically at least upload the docs to the eclipse website without any local intervention at all -- and without using any external bandwidth. The really cool thing that would mean is that any committer (or patch contributor) could edit a chunk of WikiText, commit it and the next time the build occurred they'd have their changes show up on webpage help, a downloadable PDF, and the Eclipse help system for the nightly! Right now it's a bit of a pain because I have to trigger the ant build locally and then upload both the docs and website changes which both take some time.

I think I can figure out how to do the upload using http -- though any guidance about how to handle authorization would be appreciated -- but I'm wondering if there is a more direct route such as exists with the promote scripts, i.e. just having a link from the user builds dir. Has anyone done anything like this with automated docs?

While I'm on the subject, is everyone still doing cron jobs for promotes or is the a more seamless / immediate solution that works for that?

-Miles