On 03/01/2020 18:16, Joel Sherrill wrote:


On Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 10:22 AM Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org <mailto:ged...@rtems.org>> wrote:
[...]
    I prefer we use a centralized glossary/document to generate individual
    glossaries (via scripting or improving Sphinx). This will be a lot
    easier to maintain.


The DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) calls this an AV-2 which is a singular artifacr across the project for consistencyt

http://acqnotes.com/acqnote/tasks/av-2-integrated-dictionary

That said, you need glossaries in documents and automating pulling definitions and acronyms out automatically producing a glossary and acronym list from the master AV-2 is desirable. No one wants to reference a standalone glossary.

There can be issues if definitions change over time because the single AV-2 can't deal with old and new. It gets confusing. I have seen a project where the AV-2 included history like the Oxford English Dictionary. It was dreadful.

That's a lot of background to say this isn't a RTEMS unique problem. A central database of acronyms and definitions would be a good thing. If grep is sufficient to find word use to trigger inclusion in a document specific glossary, great.

Good, so my proposal is this:

1. I move c-user/glossary.rst to common/glossary.rst and include this file as is in c-user.

2. The glossary.rst for the other documents is generated from common/glossary.rst based on the :term: usage. This can start simple, e.g. only look at the *.rst files in the document directory (e.g. no recursive includes).

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