On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 16:22 -0400, Jorge Vargas wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Ian Bicking <i...@colorstudy.com> wrote:
> >
> > Mike Orr wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:26 AM, vArDo <mateusz.bilin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe a fun/useful project would be working on a system to make the
> > documentation more useful or browsable?  E.g., a comment system or a
> > system to suggest patches.  Maybe even with some workflow...?  Maybe
> > that scope is too large, and the problem too subtle.  Though actually
> > there's several clear models for this (e.g., Django docs) so that would
> > provide a good guide.
> >
> > Writing a series of recipes (that can be tested automatically, probably
> > with buildbot) might be a good addition?  Figuring out how to write
> > testable recipes is tricky, but a doable tricky.
> >
> This sounds like a very interesting project, I have been thinking of
> something like that for some time. But as you said it quickly becomes
> too large. If this gets narrowed down it could be a solid candidate.
> Something like a code-review system meets wiki meets sphinx. It's so
> useful that it could be used by other projects. In my initial search
> for this someone point me out to http://docs.scipy.org/doc/

I think the way to do that is with doc test code in sphinx. The fact
that you can hide code that still runs means you can make a recipe bit
by bit and still be able to test the whole shebang by using the doctest
builder. But I expect everyone already knows this... ;-)

Iain



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