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S. Wrede, 01/18/2012 12:35 PM


Meetings 2012-01-18

Single topic: Documentation

Goals

  • Generate different views for different stakeholders

Insights from short literature survey:

  • Documentation artefacts which are close to source code (commits, tests, comments, API docs, ...) are easier kept up-to-date and thus well maintained
  • Big-picture / architecture information is important even if outdated
  • Consider your readers! What are those? Devs, Users, Architects?

Results

  • Use CIT catalogue as module guide (cf. Parnas)
  • Add new content type tutorial for overarching documentation modules
    • this will allow us to model dependencies to software etc. directly using the mechanisms of the CIT catalogue
    • tutorials will refer to our sphinx generated documentation
  • Views are important
    • required for catalogue and our generated documentation
  • Sphinx documentation guidelines
    • Examples should be largely self-explanatory as they will be included directly in the documentation
    • Concept explanation will be short in favor of more elaboration in the language specific examples
    • Important differences shall however be marked in the sphinx docs
    • Component descriptions shall be language independent (at least for RSB)
    • Man-page generation is an open issue
    • Glossar seems very useful but should be available from a centralized documentation
    • CI server needs to automatically build (and deploy) the generated documentation (otherwise each dev would need to build the whole library stack to build documentation)