Monero Docs

This repository contains the source files to Monero Community documentation hosted at docs.getmonero.org

• About
• Contributing
• Local Deployment
• License

About

Monero Docs intends to be a Knowledge Base and User Guide for interacting with Monero.

Contributing

Contributions are both encouraged and greatly appreciated.

To contribute content, fork this repo and make a pull request to the master branch including your changes.

1. On GitHub, fork the monero-docs repo
2. Clone your newly created repo. (Note: replace your-username with your GitHub username)

via ssh:

git clone git@github.com:your-username/monero-docs

via https:

git clone https://github.com/your-username/monero-docs

3. Navigate to the repo and create a new topic branch

cd monero-docs
git checkout -b foobar

4. After making modifications, commit and push your changes to your topic branch
5. Open a PR against the monero-docs master branch

Run the documentation server locally

• The build process for mkdocs utilizes Python
• It is recommended to install python pip dependencies inside of a Virtual Environment (venv)

Note: You may need to first install python3-venv or the equivalent for your distribution

1. Navigate to your monero-docs repo
2. Create the python virtual environment

python3 -m venv .monero-docs-venv
source .monero-docs-venv/bin/activate

3. Install mkdocs dependencies to the venv

pip install --require-hashes -r requirements.txt

4. Run the documentation server locally

python3 -m mkdocs serve

5. View your changes at http://localhost:8000

License

The documentation is provided under the MIT License.