On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:40 AM, Anand Vaidya wrote:

> I am very impressed with the Pylons docs site (http://pylonshq.com/
> docs/en/1.0/) . I am looking for a similar documentation site for
> another python project.
> 
> So here are my questions:
> 
> 1. Is the docs built with RST or Textile? comments accept textile
> input.

The docs are built with the Sphinx tool:
http://sphinx.pocoo.org/

To ease updates, I have an uploader that uploads them to the PylonsHQ site, 
where they're stored in CouchDB in the same JSON-type format that they're saved 
into when Sphinx builds the docs for 'web'. The code for the uploader is here:
http://bitbucket.org/bbangert/pylons/src/tip/pylons/docs/uploader.py

The PylonsHQ site is running Pylons with CouchDB. The comments are stored in 
CouchDB, and the doc viewing/uploading is handled by the docs controller in the 
PylonsHQ project (called Kai):
http://bitbucket.org/bbangert/kai/src/tip/kai/controllers/docs.py

> 2. I guess the docs site is pylons powered. So what is the CMS or app
> serving the docs? Is this app available for downloading and use  Or
> can I get the source for the app and install on my server?

Yep, it's available as Kai from above. Note that I put the project up for those 
curious, there's no actual support for it. You should be quite familiar with 
Pylons before attempting to try it out.

> 3. How is the content maintained? Does someone (core-dev?) write RST/
> markdown/textile formatted text files and run sphinx? Or does the
> magical pylons app allow WYSIWYG editing?

They're all RST docs, as that's what Sphinx uses.

Note that you can also use Sphinx and upload docs to 
http://packages.python.org/ where it will look like whatever Sphinx theme 
you've chosen.

Cheers,
Ben

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