[android-developers] Re: Having Android Documentation in Groups Pages area

2009-09-15 Thread tansaku
Understood. I'm sorry you question the value to the doc writers of all this. Have you not used the MySQL or PHP documentation? Part of the real benefit is to the developer community themselves. It helps them converge their discussions around particular parts of the API. It lowers the barrier t

[android-developers] Re: Having Android Documentation in Groups Pages area

2009-08-31 Thread Dianne Hackborn
I don't manage the docs, so I can't really address your request, except that the tech writers have very limited time and I doubt they will be able to spend it on setting all of this up. I also question value to them of this, since this would be a significant investment in time for monitoring all o

[android-developers] Re: Having Android Documentation in Groups Pages area

2009-08-31 Thread tansaku
Good to know that you guys are accepting contributions to the documentation in its current location. I can imagine that it would be a big task to move it elsewhere, but what about mirroring it to the google group discussion pages? That way any updates to the main source tree would be reflected in

[android-developers] Re: Having Android Documentation in Groups Pages area

2009-08-31 Thread tansaku
Sure, but I was proposing that the Google staff doing the updates to the main tree would do it here, so no replication of work. CHEERS> SAM On Aug 26, 3:37 pm, Michael Leung wrote: > But that needs someone to update it. I think that is fine to read from the > main android site. > > However, tha

[android-developers] Re: Having Android Documentation in Groups Pages area

2009-08-27 Thread Dianne Hackborn
The official location of the documentation is in the source tree, in the source documentation files and various java docs related to all of the classes. We have been regularly accepting contributions to that code to fix and improve the documentation there. Someone could certainly copy the docs to

[android-developers] Re: Having Android Documentation in Groups Pages area

2009-08-27 Thread Balwinder Kaur (T-Mobile USA)
I think that is quite a nice idea :) As we come across ways that we feel can make the documentation become more succinct and report those, it helps Android Developers' lives become easier. The strength of an open source platform comes piping the knowledge of its users back into the platform. Bal

[android-developers] Re: Having Android Documentation in Groups Pages area

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Leung
But that needs someone to update it. I think that is fine to read from the main android site. However, that is a good and positive idea. On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:32 AM, tansaku wrote: > > Hi All, > > I was thinking, wouldn't it be great if all the android reference > documentation was in the pa