Ok, now I know what I want.

I want a better way to document. Because I’m trying to write a documentation 
about my stuff, but there are too many disconnected ways to do that. I’m trying 
to always have reasonable class comments. But sometimes you need a more general 
description, so you write help topics which are disconnected from class 
comments. Yes, we can add help topics generated from class comments but that’s 
too weak. Additionally I version my projects on github, so I want t doc there 
in readme, or on a wiki. What’s more I think that it’s a good idea to export 
doc to the web. Because when someone mentioned package manifest I started to 
google for it and could not find anything.

My suggestions:
- write comments in pillar and slowly add pillar support to enrich comment 
(documentation) styles
- add a possibility to reference classes/methods and help topics from pillar 
comments
- have exporters to generate html documentation about a project based on 
comments and help topics
- then I will be able to add a hook to Icebeg telling it: ok, on commit also 
generate a doc and export it as MarkDown (because we can) and commit it as a 
README or as a wiki entry or whatever.

This way we will have interconnected documentation in the image, and if it 
should be placed somewhere else we export it.

Cheers.
Uko

> On 24 Aug 2016, at 06:59, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> We have some ideas (because people are working on items) for the Pharo 6 
> roadmap
> 
> and we will consolidate them soon and propose them to you.
> 
> but I would like to know two kinds of points
> 
>    - what are the points you are working on and that would deserve more focus 
> and help from the community?
> 
>        (these points are important because like that you could go faster and 
> this is a good feeling to get done for example)
> 
>    - what would be points where (if magically we would get more resources - 
> to not dream if this is not you
> 
>        there is a high chance that we will not make it) it would be nice to 
> get some changes
> 
> 
> Please pay attention that if you type too fast and come up with a christmas 
> list well it will stay a christmas list and will just make the thread larger 
> for nothing.
> 
> Stef
> 
> 


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