On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 7:26 PM Brennan Ashton wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 6:10 PM Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> (..)
> > After some consideration a "safer" approach may be more desirable for now:
> >
> > 1. Migrate all documentation to a separate Documentation/ as it is
> > currently done, so we do not lose any content from
> > MediaWiki/README/CWIKI, we can add additional content that we need,
> > the documentation form is shaped to a satisfactory state, automation
> > is verified, nice references, tables of contents, sections, etc.
> > People will have solid documentation all the time and we cause no mess
> > and we can see how the work on doc goes in reality :-)
> >
> > 2. When we have a well shaped "separate" documentation then it may be
> > the time to consider merging it with the source code, but not before,
> > if desired at all?
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Eh I don't think we should pull the docs apart. Its a pain to manage
> especially with sphinx if we start sprinkling the docs all over the place.
> it's also hard in my opinion to write clear cohesive docs thare do not get
> highly repetitive if each section lives in isolation.  This unified style
> is also what we seen in projects like Zephr and Linux
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/Documentation
> https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/tree/main/doc
>
> All this said, there is no reason to not also write clear comments in the
> code, especially code that may be incomplete, complex, hiding dragons or
> otherwise confusing.

Roger! So the doc stays separated from the src :-)

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