>
> Could we maybe get use PHPDoc to generate MediaWiki docs, so that we can
> compare them side-by-side.


This is an important request because (to play devil's advocate here a
little bit)...

> 1. Not be tortoise slow
Pretty sure this only matters because we do continuous integration -- we
probably don't need to do this for every commit...? Maybe once a day?

In any case -- who says PHPDoc is any faster.

> 2. Have usable search
The demo at least doesn't even offer search functionality...

But does this even matter? I would argue in favour of a independent search
solution along the lines of Ohloh [1] so that we can integrate our JSDuck
documentation.

> 3. Prettier interface
Prettier does not mean more usable. Imho after playing with their online
demo for 5 minutes it was *less* usable than doxygen. Additionally, if you
think doxygen is ugly, we can reskin it!

~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation
Fundraising Technology Team


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Could we maybe get use PHPDoc to generate MediaWiki docs, so that we can
> compare them side-by-side.
>
> *-- *
> *Tyler Romeo*
> Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
> Major in Computer Science
> www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected]
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello! Our current generated documentation[1] uses doxygen, and
> > leaves... a number of things to be desired - such as:
> >
> > 1. Not be tortoise slow
> > 2. Have usable search
> > 3. Prettier interface
> >
> > I was looking around for alternatives, and ran into phpdocumentor2[2].
> > The project still seems active (latest commit was 3 days ago, and for
> > vagrant support!), and the demo was quite pretty:
> >
> > http://demo.phpdoc.org/Responsive/namespaces/phpDocumentor.html
> >
> > Is there any particular reason we are still sticking with doxygen? Or
> > is it just 'someone needs to find the time to move things over to the
> > new system'?
> >
> > [1]: https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/html/
> > [2]: http://www.phpdoc.org/
> >
> > --
> > Yuvi Panda T
> > http://yuvi.in/blog
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