I have to agree that the documentation for Django is lite years ahead
of other frameworks I've looked at (no names! :-), but improvement is
always a worthy goal. It is really fantastic to see other people
writing up tutorials and documentation - it shows that people are
really getting stuck in to Django.

Anyway, I think there are two major types of documentation that people
look for:

1) "walkthroughs" - these tend to be oriented around one application,
and walk the user through creating them. For example - I want a
guestbook, how do I make one? I want a blog, what do I do? The django
tutorials fall into this category. These ones tend to be nice and slow,
with lots of scenic detail and asides.

2) "lookups" - how do I do x? these tend to be very specific, and
happen when the programmer is typing away and wants to, say, get the
last n entries in table y with some value equal to z. These should be
straight to the point and more concerned with the correct syntax and
procedure to use.

We really need to aggregate these all into one place - the trac wiki
would be best. Have a tutorials section for the walkthroughs and a
"how-to" section for the lookups.

Skimming through django-developers and django-users should yield quite
a few discussions which could be added immediately.

--Simon


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