Automated documentation

[CM000n]

Hi guys, because the repository is picking up speed again and more and more pull requests with new features and changes are coming in, it is getting more and more difficult to update the documentation / wiki page in a timely manner.
On top of that, due to @Paddy0174 outage, we currently don't have access permissions to the wiki page repo and more and more necessary adjustments are piling up there.
Therefore I recently asked myself if it would be possible to automatically generate maps and documentation from the latest .yaml files. Also, @sildehoop last post about his Figma made me wonder if such a card display and associated documentation could be automated somehow.
This is certainly a bigger and more complex issue. Unfortunately I had no bright idea how to implement this. Therefore I simply put the topic here for discussion. Maybe someone here can and might support.

[KaherdinTristan]

Hi
I love the fact that this repo has "exploded", because the results are amazing and the community interaction is so cool 💙🤠

The new cards really deserve a place to be shown, one by one, so that new and existing users can see all options available.

Has GitHub heard back regarding the wiki?
🕊️

[stokkie90]

Some cool feature of mkdocs: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/reference/code-blocks/#embedding-external-files

[CM000n]

To be honest, that doesn't mean anything to me for now 😄 But sure, if mkdocs offers more features and is just as or easier to maintain than jekyll, we can gladly change the static site generator as well.

[CM000n]

I had contact with Github support again today.
Github will now, on behalf of all of us, send @Paddy0174 the following message.

Dear Patrick,

we really miss you very much and hope that everything is all right with you.
During your absence, time has not stood still and we have implemented some cool new features & bug fixes and got some more things rolling for the future of Minimalist UI.
Apart from the fact that working on the project is only half as much fun without you, we also have no access to the organization and the associated repo of our wiki page without you.
We are in a dichotomy with everything we are doing right now. The Lovelace Minimalist UI is largely your baby and we don't want to ignore you in our decisions. 
On the other hand, innovations are constantly taking place in the Homeassistant environment, making it necessary to constantly adapt the UI.
If we don't hear from you in the near future despite repeated attempts to contact you, we may have to create a new organization and switch to a new repo. :-( 
This decision is difficult for us and we want to avoid it at all costs, but we hope you understand if it should come to that.

Currently the repo is mainly maintained by CM000n, schumijo, TBens and bavo.
Please contact us in the Home Assistant forum if you can.
We miss you.

Your maintainers and lovers of the UI-Lovelace-Minimalist project

[stokkie90]

Let's Hope he will see the message.

I was thinking as we have gathered some people that have some great ideas to move forward, might it be an idea to create like a discord server so we can chat about the ideas we have? In case you like the idea.

Is not much yet but: https://discord.gg/aygsyzeh

[CM000n]

Cool idea, I'm definitely in! I think I'll drop in there from time to time too. Just not as regularly as usual over the holidays.