On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:06:34PM -0800, Lenard Lindstrom wrote: > One advantage with formal documentation is it can be kept synchronized > with Python doc strings. The current Pygame doc system does this in a > limited way. Hopefully a move to reST will encourage even greater > coordination. How would this be done with a wiki? Only the author of a > new Pygame feature knows what it should actually do. Unfortunately the > existing docs containing many second hand guesses. How will a wiki give > better descriptions. As a developer, it is as easy for me to edit the > docs in SVN as a wiki page. The Python approach to cooperative > documenting is to encourage users to submit patches which are then > incorporated into the formal documents. But this is not to discourage a > wiki document. But maybe it can complement the formal docs, be more of a > user's guide then a api reference. > > Lenard
Just a thought-- is there any possible interface where volunteers could have a wiki-like interface for contributing updates directly to the reST format docs? --- James Paige