Re: Help document Plone's API

Israel Saeta Pérez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Martin Aspeli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Israel Saeta Pérez wrote:
>
>> I'd love to participate on that but I currently don't have the time
>> and won't have it until late June due to my exams. :-/
>
> I suspect we won't get anything moving until then, so if you do want to
> own this, that'd be great. ;)

Cool!

>> In the future I would like the API documentation to be generated
>> directly from the doctests and sphinx or similar tools would be very
>> helpful here.
>
> That's a different issue again. It'd be great to expose this. However,
> there's too many doctests and interfaces and no structure (other than
> the arbitrary package structure of the code they're bundled with)
> that'll help people find what they need. If you look at that mindmap,
> many of the groupings sit across three or four packages.

Ok we can try to identify and document the API using the current
mindmap as basis. I prefer to work rather to argue, since we can
always copy-paste documentation inside a manual, doctests or whatever.
:)

-- israel

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