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AI-based, Comprehensive Service Management for Businesses and IT ProvidersChangeGear provides IT staff with the functions required to manage everything from ticketing to incident, change and asset management and more. ChangeGear includes a virtual agent, self-service portals and AI-based features to support analyst and end user productivity.
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Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.
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Sphinx
Main repository for the Sphinx documentation builder
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license. It was originally created for the Python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages. Of course, this site is also created from reStructuredText sources using Sphinx! HTML (including Windows HTML Help), LaTeX (for printable PDF versions), ePub, Texinfo, manual pages, plain text. Semantic markup and automatic links for functions, classes, citations, glossary terms and similar pieces of information. Easy definition of a document tree, with automatic links to siblings, parents and children. General index as well as a language-specific module index. Automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighter. Automatic testing of code snippets, the inclusion of docstrings from Python modules (API docs), and more. -
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Papermerge
Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives
Papermerge is an open source document management system (DMS) primarily designed for archiving and retrieving your digital documents. Instead of having piles of paper documents all over your desk, office or drawers - you can quickly scan them and configure your scanner to directly upload to Papermerge DMS. Store, organize and index scanned documents in PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats. Instantly find relevant information using full text, tags and metadata-based search. Papermerge is free and open-source software which means that transparency is the core value of our software development. Source code can be reviewed and improved by anyone from anywhere. Papermerge supports multiple users. Each user can be assigned different permissions to perform only a specific kind of action e.g. view only documents from a specific folder. OCR technology is vital part of Papermerge. It extracts text information from scanned documents, PDF, JPEG, TIFF files. -
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MkDocs
Project documentation with Markdown
MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file. Start by reading the introductory tutorial, then check the User Guide for more information. There's a stack of good-looking themes available for MkDocs. Choose between the built in themes: mkdocs and readthedocs, select one of the third-party themes listed on the MkDocs Themes wiki page, or build your own. Get your project documentation looking just the way you want it by customizing your theme and/or installing some plugins. Modify Markdown's behavior with Markdown extensions. Many configuration options are available. The built-in dev-server allows you to preview your documentation as you're writing it. It will even auto-reload and refresh your browser whenever you save your changes. -
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DocsGPT
GPT-powered chat for documentation search & assistance
DocsGPT is a cutting-edge open-source solution that streamlines the process of finding information in project documentation. With its integration of powerful GPT models, developers can easily ask questions about a project and receive accurate answers. Say goodbye to time-consuming manual searches, and let DocsGPT help you quickly find the information you need. Try it out and see how it revolutionizes your project documentation experience. Contribute to its development and be a part of the future of AI-powered assistance. -
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Google Open Source Project Style Guide
Chinese version of Google open source project style guide
Each larger open source project has its own style guide, a series of conventions on how to write code for the project (sometimes more arbitrary). When all the code maintains a consistent style, it is more important when understanding large code bases. easy. The meaning of "style" covers a wide range, from "variables use camelCase" to "never use global variables" to "never use exceptions". The English version of the project maintains the programming style guidelines used in Google. If the project you are modifying originates from Google, you may be directed to the English version of the project page to understand the style used by the project. The Chinese version of the project uses reStructuredText plain text markup syntax, and uses Sphinx to generate document formats such as HTML / CHM / PDF. -
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AsciiDoc is a presentable text document format for writing articles, UNIX man pages and other small to medium sized documents. The asciidoc(1) command translates AsciiDoc files to HTML, DocBook and LinuxDoc formats.
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troposphere
Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions
The troposphere library allows for easier creation of the AWS CloudFormation JSON by writing Python code to describe the AWS resources. troposphere also includes some basic support for OpenStack resources via Heat. To facilitate catching CloudFormation or JSON errors early the library has property and type checking built into the classes. -
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"Roberge's Used Robot (RUR) : a Python Learning Environment" is a Python implementation of a "robot environment" as introduced by R. Pattis in 1981. **It is obsolete.** See https://github.com/aroberge/rur-ple
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Yeastar: Business Phone System and Unified CommunicationsUser-friendly, optimized, and scalable, the Yeastar P-Series Phone System redefines business connectivity by bringing together calling, meetings, omnichannel messaging, and integrations in one simple platform—removing the limitations of distance, platforms, and systems.
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NGINX Admin’s Handbook
How to improve NGINX performance, security, and other important things
nginx-admins-handbook is a practical, in-depth guide for configuring, securing, and operating NGINX across real-world deployments. It distills years of research, notes, and field experience into a single handbook that complements the official docs with concrete rules, explanations, and curated external references. The handbook spans fundamentals and advanced topics alike, from HTTP and SSL/TLS basics to reverse proxy patterns, performance tuning, debugging workflows, and hardening strategies. A centerpiece is its prioritized checklist of 79 rules, grouped by criticality, helping readers focus on what most impacts security, reliability, and speed. Instead of copy-paste snippets in isolation, it emphasizes understanding trade-offs, avoiding common pitfalls, and balancing security with usability. Designed for system administrators and web application engineers, it aims to be a living companion that encourages experimentation, measurement, and continuous improvement of NGINX configurations -
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Read the Docs
The source code that powers readthedocs.org
Read the Docs is a platform that automates building, versioning, and hosting documentation from source repositories. Supporting Sphinx, MkDocs, Jupyter Book, and more, it integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket to trigger automatic builds upon updates. Both open-source projects and private documentation can be hosted, with previews, search, audits, and analytics, enabling seamless “Docs as Code” workflows. -
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Epydoc is a tool for generating API documentation for Python modules, based on their docstrings. Epydoc supports two output formats (HTML and PDF), and four markup languages for docstrings (Epytext, Javadoc, ReStructuredText, and plaintext).
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Leo is an outlining-oriented project manager and browser. With Leo you can organize programs, web sites, URL's, pictures or any other kind of data. Leo is fully scriptable in Python. Leo is 100% pure Python. It requires the Qt gui toolkit.
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Python Audio Tools are a collection of audio handling programs. These include programs for CD extraction, track conversion from one audio format to another, track renaming and retagging, track identification, CD burning from tracks, and more.
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The purpose of this project is to create a German translation of the book <a href="http://www.byteofpython.info">"A Byte of Python"</a> originally written in English by Swaroop C H.
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gjots2
hierarchical note jotter - organise your ideas, notes, facts in a tree
2023/04/04: MIGRATED TO https://gitlab.com/wef/gjots2 gjots2 is a fairly simple jotter (outline processor) application for your desktop. See http://bhepple.freeshell.org/gjots -
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DocLite is a simple documentation authoring system, it produces multi-page HTML output (like this document) in a style similar to that found in the Linux HOTWTOs or other DocBook created documents.
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DoCookBook
Cookbook Style Document for DocBook Customizations
This project has been moved to GitHub: https://github.com/tomschr/dbcookbook/ The DoCookBook project aims to create an open source book about DocBook and the DocBook XSL stylesheets written as a cookbook and released under a Creative Commons license. -
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reStructuredText defines & implement a markup syntax for use in Python docstrings and other documentation domains, that is readable & simple, yet powerful. Project inactive. Development taken over by Docutils, http://docutils.sourceforge.net/.
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Hylt is a file format that provides HYperLinked Text with minimal markup, meant to be both easy to view in any program and easy to keep in a version control system. The Hylt project covers the file specification, viewers, and tools to manage Hylt files.
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pyWeb Literate Programming Tool
Literate Programming in pure Python
pyWeb is a Literate Programming tool that will work with any markup language and any programming langauge. The idea is to allow you to create great documentation with as constraints or limitations. -
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Tools for extracting and transforming XML-like mark-up, embedded in source code comments, into proper external entities or well-formed XML files. Can be used for JavaDoc-like "literate programming", or embedding other build-related or CM metadata.
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yz-next-apyref
Arno-Can's Python based API Reference Generator.
Multi-Syntax-Version and Multi-Implementation API reference documentation generator. Supports local and remote sources. -
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ARREA
Collaborative editor, requirements management tool and much more
ARREA (A Reasonable Requirements Engineering Application) is a simple yet powerful requirements management tool that uses arbitrary files to store information and Subversion to allow team collaboration. Its simple conventions make it suitable for much other purposes. In fact, for any document-oriented tasks focused on collaborative work and exhaustive change and traceability management. At its heart, ARREA provides a thin layer on top of SVN that allows it to be used as a powerful time-aware NoSQL database, accessible through an easy REST API. -
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AFMS is an Artefact Management System to manage some of the artefacts appearing in the development process of a product. Artefacts are for example requirements, use cases or test cases. AFMS contains an artefact editor and a test execution tool.