This page is severely out-of-date and has remained so for an extended
period of time, with no one able or willing to update it. The outdated
content has proven misleading or unhelpful to many users. Since we have
nothing with which to replace the outdated content, removing it seems
like the lesser of two evils. (Note that the content is still available
via Git history and other archives for historical reasons and for any
users still on EOL releases.) If anyone is able and willing to
contribute the relevant knowledge and/or text for customizing the
installation of a supported Qubes release, we can bring this page back
in the future.
ClosesQubesOS/qubes-issues#5632ClosesQubesOS/qubes-issues#5637ClosesQubesOS/qubes-issues#7915
- Improve language
- Fix image links
- Explain BIOS and UEFI, provide links
- Fill in missing steps and information gaps
- Standardize grammar and punctuation
- Improve formatting
- Clarify instructions and explanations
The existing doc guidelines page attempts to combine too many different
topics at once and includes information that does not pertain directly
to the documentation. This reorganization is intended to make each type
of information easier to find. For example, some have found it difficult
to find the documentation style guidelines (see, e.g.,
QubesOS/qubes-issues#6701#issuecomment-875875610). This reorganization
allows us to assign more specific titles to each page.
General changes:
- Create new page for contribution instructions
- Create new page for website style guide
- Create new page for continuous integration
- Rename existing "style guide" to "visual style guide" in order to
avoid ambiguity with new doc and website style guides
- Retain existing page solely for doc style guide
- Update page names and permalinks
- Update existing links
- Improve language
Doc style guide changes:
- Add section on using sentence case in headings
(see QubesOS/qubes-issues#6756 and #1173)
- Improve section organization
- Clarify language
In order to better preserve the Git history of each file, file renames
will be handled in a separate commit.
Although the HTML tags are technically correct, it's probably more
important to preserve source readability and avoid the problems that
HTML-in-Markdown poses for localization and offline documentation.
Those are redundant, and yaml parser strips them in fact. By removing
them, loading and saving yaml file without any change indeed produce the
same output. This is useful for prepare_for_translation.py script (which
adds lang and ref tags) - to produce only change that indeed was made.
- Convert "Common Tasks" to "How-to Guides"
(QubesOS/qubes-issues#6694)
- Make title capitalization consistent across docs
- Fix leftover h1 headings
- Reorganize various pages and topics
- Update permalinks to better match titles
- Create redirects for changed permalinks
- Miscellaneous cleanup
QubesOS/qubes-issues#6701
