[Grok-dev] finishing reference docs

[Michael Haubenwallner]

Kevin Teague wrote:
>> Could anyone outline the missing and incomplete parts at
>> http://svn.zope.org/grok/trunk/doc/reference
>> to get the docs more complete for the next release?
>>
> 
> Right, I almost got those docs good enough for release and then ... I  
> took a week long trip to Bermuda and the cruise ship I was on went  
> through the Bermuda Triangle and disappeared for several months.
> 
> (ok, no, I'm just too easily distracted ...)
> 
> There only a few small things to do, such as tidy up the reference  
> index page a bit (remove that model.rst reference for example, and  
> that link to the PDF - or make PDF generation work, I never got that  
> done). There might be one or two XXX sections, and there are still  
> quite a few places where the docs are empty or quite thin, but "thin"  
> docs are better than no docs, so I wouldn't let that hold up  
> completion of the work.
> 
> There are larger, more ambitious things to tackle post 0.14, such as  
> extending Sphinx to have an Interface keyword so that the distinction  
> can be better made between interfaces and classes in the docs. It  
> might also make sense to push some of the doc changes back into Grok,  
> and then have Sphinx extract those docs from the code artifacts in the  
> grok source. I think it'd also be nice to aim for a larger, richer set  
> of reference docs over time - Sphinx is quite at making menus and such  
> so that it's easy enough to find the relevant section you are looking  
> for, but it's annoying when the docs in that section are quite thin  
> and really meaty explanation and example would be much more welcome.
> 
> Not having done any web work for a few months, I did start back up on  
> some Grok work this week - I have been finding the reference docs  
> quite useful as a refresher!
> 
> (and hopefully I'll get off my lazy ol' ass and start doing some more  
> doc contributions in the not too distant future - but of course please  
> don't let that deter you from working on the docs!)

Hi again, i already posted to the mailing list - but you might have
missed that.

Could you check in your doc changes to the SVN repo ?

Thanks
Michael

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