On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:41 AM, laurent laffont wrote:

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>
> So far we should invent it.
> And I totally agree with you. If people do not see the good doc they
> will not write good comment.
> I started to work on DrDoc a kind of package meta data to add
> documentation to a package but it got stole
> I should push that again. What would be nice is to take one package
> and do it well as an example.
>
>
> It think it should be possible to write documentation at the package  
> level. So developpers have a place where they can write an overview  
> of their package. When we click on a package, documentation should  
> be displayed by default or easily.

Yes this is exactly the idea behind DrDoc
The browser or another tools could show us that
You can have a look at DrDoc and we could pair code more on it.


> In the rubygems world, it is a common practice to write  
> documentation in a README file which is displayed by RDoc on startup  
> page (github works the same way). It seems to me that there's the  
> same level of comment between Ruby class/methods and Pharo. The  
> documentation at the package level may be the difference.

Yes

> Python has a real documentation effort.Each release come with its up  
> to date documentation. It's a release criteria. Python shares some  
> similarities with Pharo as they both have "batteries included". May  
> be there should have a process to contribute to a centralized Pharo  
> documentation which can be accessed within the IDE.

Yes
I think that pushing a bit more DrDoc is the way to go.
I'm just flooded by work.


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