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Automatically update the command reference docs from CI

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
github-actions, go

Research direction

Review the CLI repository's existing CI configuration and the docs repository's content/master/ and release directories first. Trace how CLI reference documentation is generated, then use create-pull-request to automate updates after help changes and releases. Done means both update paths create usable pull requests in the appropriate docs directory.

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Description

documentation enhancement
What problem are you facing?

We're now able to auto-generate the CLI reference documentation for docs.crossplane.io, but have to do it manually.

How could Crossplane help solve your problem?

We should add CI jobs to:

  • Update the CLI docs in the content/master/ directory of the docs repo every time we merge a help change to main.
  • Update the CLI docs in the relevant release directory of the docs repo (e.g., content/v2.3) every time we do a release.

We can use https://github.com/peter-evans/create-pull-request to automatically create PRs to the docs repo.

Dominant language
Go
Stars
19
Forks
31
Avg merge
2d 15h
Merged PRs (30d)
53

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