Currently we have two kinds of user documentation:
* the about page[1] which is written in HTML and part of the web
application and can therefore link instance-specific pages
(like e.g. the preferences) via Jinja variables
* the Sphinx documentation[2] which is written in reStructuredText
and cannot link instance-specific pages since it doesn't know
which instance the user is using
The plan is to integrate the user documentation currently in Sphinx
into the application, so that it can also link instance specific pages.
We also want to enable the user documentation to be translated.
This commit implements the first step in this endeavor (see #722).
[1]: searx/templates/__common__/about.html
[2]: docs/user/ (currently served at https://docs.searxng.org/user/)
This commit remove the need to update the brand for GIT_URL and GIT_BRANCH:
there are read from the git repository.
It is possible to call python -m searx.version freeze to freeze the current version.
Useful when the code is installed outside git (distro package, docker, etc...)
In the templates and the /config (JSON) the usage of the 'brand.*' name
space is replaced by 'searx.get_setting' function.
- new_issue_url --> get_setting('brand.new_issue_url')
- brand.GIT_URL --> get_setting('brand.git_url')
- brand.PUBLIC_INSTANCES --> get_setting('brand.public_instances')
- brand.DOCS_URL --> get_setting('brand.docs_url')
- brand.ISSUE_URL --> get_setting('brand.issue_url')
- brand.CONTACT_URL --> get_setting('general.contact_url', '')
The macro 'new_issue' from searx/templates/*/messages/no_results.html
is now imported with context::
{% from '__common__/new_issue.html' import new_issue with context %}
To get *public instances URL* from context's 'get_setting()' function::
get_setting('brand.public_instances','')
Macro's prototype does no longer need the 'new_issue_url' argument and has been
changed to::
macro new_issue(engine_name, engine_reliability)
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
A *brand* of searx is a fork which might have its own design and some special
functions which might bee reasonable in a special context.
In this sense, the fork might have its own documentation but not its own issue
tracker. The *upstream* of a brand is always https://github.com/asciimoo from
where the brand-fork pulls the master branch regularly. A fork which has its
own issue tracker is a spin-off and out of the scope of the searx project
itself. The conclusion is:
- hard code ISSUE_URL (in the Makefile)
- always refer to DOCS_URL
- links in the about page refer to the *upstream* (searx project)
except DOCS_URL
- "fork me on github" ribbons refer to the *upstream*
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
We have some variables in the build environment which are also needed in the
templating process. Theses variables are relavant if one creates a fork with
its own branding. We treat these variables under the term 'brands'.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
