PhotoPrism: Official Documentation (English)

This repository contains the source files of PhotoPrism's documentation for editing in human-friendly Markdown files. They are intended to be parsed with the Mkdocs documentation builder to generate the final HTML pages available at docs.photoprism.app.

Although arguably less convenient to work with than a Wiki, this Git repository enables us to easily merge pull requests and constantly improve our documentation in a transparent way. Direct access to the source files in a revision control system is a big plus to ensure the quality of our documentation.

Editing Content

At the top of each generated page is an edit this page link to the corresponding page on GitHub, where you can make changes (and submit pull requests with a few clicks) without needing to know Git or run anything on your system.

To make more extensive changes, fork this repository, modify the corresponding .md source files (or create new ones), commit the changes, push them back to your fork, and then submit a pull request to our master branch.

Project Layout

mkdocs.yml    # The configuration file.
docs/
    index.md  # The documentation homepage.
    ...       # Other markdown pages, images and other files.

Using Mkdocs

First make sure you have Docker and common development tools like make installed on your computer.

Then use this command in the main project directory to download and run the latest version of mkdocs-material:

make pull watch

Now open http://localhost:8000/ in a browser to view the rendered documentation.

The content will be updated automatically when changes are detected.

Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

After submitting your first pull request, you will automatically be asked to accept our CLA:

• this gives us the ability to (re-)license all code and documentation at any time, almost as if we had created it ourselves (you retain the rights to your own work, which may be different for other CLAs)
• otherwise, we cannot accept pull requests, as this would mean that we are not able to change the license of our software and documentation at a later time, even though most of it was developed and written by us
• this may be necessary, for example, if the license is incompatible with a larger combined work, we want to remove some restrictions on the AGPL/Creative Commons license, or it turns out that someone is abusing the existing license in a way we don't yet know about
• the lack of a formal contract would also lead to legal uncertainty for us and all users, as some contributors could later claim that they did not intend to license their code in any way and that it was stolen

Related Repositories

• photoprism/photoprism-docs-de - User Guide (German)
• photoprism/photoprism - Application Source Code

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