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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using doxygen (or something similar) to generate API docs [was [PATCH 4/4] Add a function string_list_longest_prefix()]
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:09:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <504E651A.4030401@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120910215633.GB1537@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 09/10/2012 11:56 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:21:12PM +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
>> My plate is full.  If you are able to work on this, it would be awesome.
>>  As far as I'm concerned, you are the new literate documentation czar :-)
> 
> Lucky me? :)

I was nominating Andreas, who rashly volunteered to help.  But don't
feel left out; there's enough work to go around :-)

> I think I'll leave it for the moment, and next time I start to add some
> api-level documentation I'll take a look at doxygen-ating them and see
> how I like it. And I'd invite anyone else to do the same (in doxygen, or
> whatever system you like -- the best way to evaluate a tool like this is
> to see how your real work would look).

I agree with that.  A very good start would be to mark up a single API
and build the docs (by hand if need be) using a proposed tool.  This
will let people get a feel for (1) what the markup has to look like and
(2) what they get out of it.

Michael

-- 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-10 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-09  5:53 [PATCH 0/4] Add some string_list-related functions Michael Haggerty
2012-09-09  5:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add a new function, string_list_split_in_place() Michael Haggerty
2012-09-09  9:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-10  4:45     ` Michael Haggerty
2012-09-10  5:47       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-10 11:48         ` Michael Haggerty
2012-09-10 16:09           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-09  5:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add a new function, filter_string_list() Michael Haggerty
2012-09-09  9:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-10  8:58     ` Michael Haggerty
2012-09-09  5:53 ` [PATCH 3/4] Add a new function, string_list_remove_duplicates() Michael Haggerty
2012-09-09  9:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-10  9:15     ` Michael Haggerty
2012-09-09  5:53 ` [PATCH 4/4] Add a function string_list_longest_prefix() Michael Haggerty
2012-09-09  9:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-10 10:01     ` Michael Haggerty
2012-09-10 16:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-10 16:33         ` Jeff King
2012-09-10 17:48           ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-09-10 19:21             ` Using doxygen (or something similar) to generate API docs [was [PATCH 4/4] Add a function string_list_longest_prefix()] Michael Haggerty
2012-09-10 21:56               ` Jeff King
2012-09-10 22:09                 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2012-09-11  1:01                 ` Andreas Ericsson

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