On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Brad Jorsch <bjor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> > wrote: > >> > >> Since we introduced hooks in MediaWiki, the documentation has been > >> maintained in a flat file /docs/hooks.txt . Over the week-end I have > >> converted the content of that file to let Doxygen recognize it. > >> > >> The patchset is: > >> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/66128/ > > > > The result is pretty. But personally I'll probably continue to just > > look in hooks.txt if I need the info in there, and the markup in the > > (now-misnamed) file is rather ugly. Not that the existing file isn't > > also ugly, just less so. > > > > I'm with Brad. Considering we document this in the tree and on > mw.org, I'm not entirely sure what the benefit of having it done > via Doxygen is. > > I've never understood why we have some subsection of documentation stuck in the tree. It makes no sense. If we want to include docs with the software shouldn't we just dump tagged docs from mediawiki.org into the tree, per release? Right now we have docs in two places to keep up to date and neither place is kept very well documented. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
