I wonder; would it be possible to make the website inline editable and then it automatically creates github pull requests that update the docs in github as D comments?
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Rory McGuire <rjmcgu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce < > digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 at 15:41:29 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: >> >>> I know projects get bugs open when they are used, but ddox is a >>> one-person project and that one person doesn't seem terribly active in it. >>> >> >> I'm another user of ddox and fix things when they annoy me. >> I don't have many problems with it though. >> It you'd joined we'd already be 3. >> >> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/ddox/graphs/contributors >>> >> >> The main reasons why work has stalled is that the future of dpl-docs is >> unclear. Instead of fixing the remaining issues w/ ddox people have spend a >> huge amount of time to improve ddoc output, so b/c of this weird course >> Söhnke stopped working on dpl-docs for now. >> The other reason is that the existing tool already does most things you >> want from a documentation system. The styling sucked so I wrote scod, but >> most of the remaining issues are minor problems that will eventually be >> addressed. And even if you don't agree w/ some aspect of it, working on a >> common documentation engine/library makes more sense than having everyone >> write it's own, in particular if you're arguing about limited time. >> > > I like our current documentation. The only real barrier to entry for non D > devs is the weird symbols names we've used for the standard library. They > are good names, but they are "sciency". It would be great if people could > "tag" symbols in the current documentation website. That way anyone could > put things like "go:Dial" in the tags for Socket's "@safe this(Address > connectTo);" and "js:contains" in the tags for canFind(). All the symbols > in std.algorithm.setops could use some less "sciency" tags. > > If not a tagging system then at least adding synonyms would be great. > > The documentation on Google Developers is excellent for api discovery, our > docs are quite similar I think. (In our company even sales and lead gen use > the Google Developers docs to check if something is possible. > >
