Nadya, You asked good questions. Here are few answers:
1. Grouping of results is implied by documentation grouping. Scripts can process any documentation bundle, so if one creates a smaller or specific bundle, the list will be shorter, or more specific.Creating several documentation bundles in different directories makes their comparison an easy task - I can do this comparison. 2. Personally I like @page tags and package.html files. I appreciate Salikh's efforts of creating wonderful technical descriptions - I referred to them as masterpieces. I also remember that you asked me to create a narrative section for a component manager few months ago. All Doxygen documentation will be on the web site. Why these narrative sections shouldn't be evaluated? 3. I don't think the rating of pages such as a list of functions should be neglected. Any .html page which can be viewed by a user should be readable. That is a reason why I parse .html files in the script, not sources. 4. I believe establishing connection between .html files and source files can be automated. I don't know how to write a short script for that, because sometimes .html page depends from several source files, and vice versa. 5. You can imagine the following pie chart from the data: 2680 pages of 2922 (91%) are not good and should be revised. 6. Today the community discussed removing GC V4. This would immediately decrease GC documentation size. It would also decrease a number of well documented pages on garbage collection, since new GCs don't have as much comments in their code as old GC V4. Thank you for nice catches, Alexei On 11/2/06, Morozova, Nadezhda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wow! Alexei, great start! ... and so many pages marked with 0 rank. I really appreciate your effort - it sets me back on earth and to work. I hope this rating would also make owners of code more ambitious, and would inspire them to write more/better comments to get a better rating :) Question on output measurement: can we rate source files or code elements (structure, functions, etc) instead of html files? My concerns: - Many html files are autogenerated, their rating is N/A. examples: todo.html, functions_vars_0x68.html (listing of links to functions in alphabetical order - there are many pages like that) - Some results are duplicated, because each struct/function has an individual rating + rating of the file/group reference it belongs to. - Some files have a high rating (see the top candidate, for example), but it's generated from comments marked with @page. These don't belong to specific code, but create a narrative section. Evaluating these is complex, and perhaps, should not be done. My personal preference would be to move such generic explanations to component docs on the website and reserve Doxygen docs to API reference as much as possible (this is a subject for further discussion). - the listing of files is SO LONG... grouping them by file/component/type or otherwise organizing the output would make the whole rating more readable. I mean, from the current version, I can only make out the leaders (not files even, individual bits of them), and understand that the majority have 0 rating. This has its instructional impact, but I cannot see the areas where we are the best - bearable - worst, or see the approx distribution of powers... missing that info leaves me without direction on what to do. Question on data presentation: do you think we can have some post processing of the raw data that your script produces - to see the big picture? We have some metrics: graphics, pie charts, anything. This would instantly show the most important conclusions. I could do such metrics and post them regularly on Wiki. If anybody says they need such kind of info, I'd volunteer to help. Thank you, Nadya Morozova -----Original Message----- From: Fedotov, Alexei A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [doc] What should be improved in DRLVM Doxygen documentation? Nadya, All, I have ranked the quality of Doxygen-generated DRLVM documentation and posted it to the following Wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/DRLVM_Documentation_Quality All are welcome to check masterpieces of our documentation. All volunteers are welcome to improve page ranks by editing comments in DRLVM sources. With best regards, Alexei Fedotov, Intel Java & XML Engineering
