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<section version="5.0" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="section_template_policies">
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<title>Policies and conventions</title>
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<para>Most document style policies are established simply by using the template documentation framework. However,
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by applying some conventions to the document source structure, community members will be able to work across more d
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ocumentation projects.</para>
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<para>The recommended documentation structure guidelines are as follows:
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>The head book file should be named with the prefix "bk_".</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The document versioning as defined by the <literal>releaseinfo</literal> tag in the main book
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file <literal>bk_xxx</literal> should be named "Revision N.N", not "Version N.N" or simply "N.N"</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Chapters files should be named with the prefix "ch_".</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Section and sub-section files should be named with the prefix "sec_".</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Appendix files should be named with the prefix "app_".</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Figures source and images should be placed in the <literal>figures</literal> sub-directory for the document.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</para>
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<para>In addition to documentation documentation structure, general community/project guidelines are as follows
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Contributions to the documentation projects should conform to the <citetitle>Developer Certificate
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Of Origin</citetitle> as defined at <link xlink:href="http://elinux.org/Developer_Certificate_Of_Origin">
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http://elinux.org/Developer_Certificate_Of_Origin</link>. Submissions of patches to GitHub project need
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to contain the following line to indicate the submitter accepts the
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DCO:<screen>Signed-off-by: Your name >your_email@domain.com</screen></para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</para>
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</section>
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