On 05/03/2017 01:17 PM, Nash, George wrote:
> Margaret,
> 
> I split the documentation into two sections API documentation and Wiki 
> documentation. I am prepared to be a mentor for API related documentation but 
> I am not prepared to do the same for wiki related changes.
> 
> If someone feels they would be willing to mentor with wiki related changes 
> please feel free to volunteer.
> 
> To clarify if you are volunteering to be a mentor.  You will help new or 
> experienced developers/volunteers to get involved with IoTivity if they want 
> to try and help in the area of interest. We can have multiple mentors for a 
> single section. If you feel you know enough about using Doxygen you could add 
> yourself as an additional Mentor for the Documentation API.


FWIW, Doxygen is by far the Easy Part of this task. For those who are
going to work on the API docs, understanding the API and its interaction
with other APIs is key (in the sense that good docs will have
cross-references, deprecation warnings will point to alternatives,
etc.), as is figuring out what is really part of public apis and what is
just documented but internal apis, how all the headers get included and
thus interact with each other, and how to get changes merged when the
maintainers of the affected areas who have to act on your gerrit
requests are utterly slammed with things they see as much higher
priority (usually rightly so).   How you mentor the last part I'm not
sure <speak="from experience"> but without some movement on the patch
flow thing, it gets pretty frustrating pretty quickly </speak>

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