Technotes

Rubin technical notes (or technotes) are often written in reStructuredText or Markdown. Documenteer provides centralized configuration and tooling for technotes.

Getting started

• Start a new technote
• Edit a technote on your own computer
• Editing a technote with the GitHub web UI
• How your technote gets published to the web
• Migrate legacy reStructuredText/Sphinx technical notes

Metadata

• Maintaining author metadata
• Describing the document status (draft, deprecated, or stable)

Sphinx configuration

• Configuring the Sphinx build
• Sphinx extensions in technotes

See also

To learn more about technotes:

• Rubin Observatory DM Developer Guide: Technotes for stand-alone technical documentation

• SQR-000: The LSST DM Technical Note Publishing Platform