discuss ways to deploy infra and common content changes across many spec repos

[kbroch-rivosinc]

examples:

• change to docs-spec-template that needs to propagate to other specs (ex: Add lists of lists (figures, tables, listings) riscv/docs-spec-template#44)
• updating submodules hashref in all specs

considerations:

• common changes could be put in docs-resources (or other submodules if needed) to make deployment easier
  • NOTE: some rework of existing specs needed for this (possible example: common preface pulled in from docs-resources)
• testing submodules deployments on all specs
• any tooling to allow for automated changes to multiple repos where common changes can't be submodules in

tooling:

• https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo allows for performing git operations on many repos at once
• https://github.com/asottile/all-repos (similar to above)

[wmat]

I did find this GitHub Action the other day to update the submodule: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-action-submodule-updates

Perhaps we can use this, or something like it to automatically pull submodule changes.