crashpad/doc/status.md
Mark Mentovai 0c41b15496 Convert AsciiDoc documentation to Markdown
Most of the world, including the Chromium universe, seems to be
standardizing on Markdown for documentation. Markdown provides the
benefit of automatic rendering on Gitiles (Gerrit), and on GitHub
mirrors as well. Crashpad should fit in with its surroundings.

There are two quirks that I was unable to resolve.

 - Markdown does not allow **emphasis** within a ```code fence```
   region. In blocks showing interactive examples, the AsciiDoc
   documentation used this to highlight what the user was expected to
   type.
 - Markdown does not have a “definition list” (<dl>). This would have
   been nice in man pages for the Options and Exit Status sections.
   In its place, I used unnumbered lists. This is a little ugly, but
   it’s not the end of the world.

The new Markdown-formatted documentation is largely identical to the
AsciiDoc that it replaces. Minor editorial revisions were made.
References to Mac OS X now mention macOS, and tool man pages describing
tools that that access task ports now mention System Integrity
Protection (SIP).

The AppEngine-based https://crashpad.chromium.org/ app in doc/appengine
is still necessary to serve Doxygen-generated documentation. This app is
updated to redirect existing generated-HTML URLs to Gitiles’ automatic
Markdown rendering.

Scripts in doc/support are updated to adapt to this change. All AsciiDoc
support files in doc/support have been removed.

BUG=crashpad:138

Change-Id: I15ad423d5b7aa1b7aa2ed1d2cb72639eec7c81aa
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/408256
Reviewed-by: Robert Sesek <rsesek@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Scott Graham <scottmg@chromium.org>
2016-11-04 21:13:53 +00:00

1.6 KiB

Project Status

Completed

Crashpad currently consists of a crash-reporting client and some related tools for macOS and Windows. The core client work for both platforms is substantially complete. Crashpad became the crash reporter client for Chromium on macOS as of March 2015, and on Windows as of November 2015.

In Progress

Initial work on a Crashpad client for Android has begun. This is currently in the early implementation phase.

Future

There are plans to bring Crashpad clients to other operating systems in the future, including a more generic non-Android Linux implementation. There are also plans to implement a crash report processor as part of Crashpad. No timeline for completing this work has been set yet.