Managing Moodle version documentation
We generate version-specific documentation and maintain this for each supported version of Moodle.
When a new version of Moodle is released, the documentation is 'forked'.
When a version of Moodle goes out of support, its developer documentation is archived.
Further information about this functionality is available in the Docusaurus documentation on the topic.
Creating a new version of the docs
Typically this task is performed by the Integration team using the following steps:
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Ensure that all pending appropriate merge requests have been merged
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Ensure that your local branch is up-to-date
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Run the docusaurus version command:
yarn docusaurus docs:version [version]
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Commit the initial changes (Example from Moodle 4.4)
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Open
versioned_docs/version-[version]/intro.md
in your editor -
Uncomment and update the link to the release notes for this version
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Open
docs/devupdate.md
in your editor -
Clear the content of this file and update the version numbers
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Open
nextVersion.js
in your editor -
Update the values for
nextVersion
(andnextLTSVersion
after the release of an LTS version) -
Commit these changes (Example from Moodle 4.4)
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Create a pull request (Example from Moodle 4.4)
Archiving a version of the docs
This procedure has not yet been completed and documentation will be created when we do so.