[Developers] Plone cleanup

[John Sibert]

I'm glad to see that the material was not lost, but something is 
definitely broken. As I recall, there were some proxies on the plone 
site that pointed to directories at admb-foundation.org. These proxies 
were probably lost when the NCEAS folks tried to update the hosting or 
when you moved the material to a different directory. Johnoel set them 
up, but I cannot remember what they were. Perhaps Johnoel has some 
insights. Perhaps proxies are a bad idea for this purpose?

More generally, I'm not sure the API documentation belongs in the 
developers section. In the long run, users should be able to refer to 
the on-line API dox. True, the draft API documentation was created in 
part to generate some feedback, but I have received very few comments 
about the draft. Assuming that few comments are forthcomming, I'm ready 
to conclude that the API docs are OK as is, that we prefer the default 
doxygen style (in lovely ADMB greens), and that we can omit the javadocs 
style from further consideration.

Cheers,
John

On 06/18/2010 08:59 AM, Arni Magnusson wrote:
> I'm not sure, John, but I hope I didn't break anything.
>
> What I did was move all API-related things inside the 'Developers' 
> section:
>
>   http://admb-project.org/documentation/developers/api
>
> The 'Documentation' root should be as simple as possible, and the API 
> documentation is mainly in the arena of developers, as an ongoing 
> task. But users looking for manuals and references will also find a 
> link inside
>
>   http://admb-project.org/documentation/manuals
>
> that points to the current Doxygen (default) tree on the ADMB 
> Foundation website.
>
> The helpful guidelines that you've written about Doxygen are found in 
> http://admb-project.org/documentation/developers/api, as well as the 
> default.zip and sunsys.zip archives. I have also added a link to the 
> current Doxygen tree from there.
>
> Arni
>
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, John Sibert wrote:
>
>> Hi Arni -
>>
>> Nice cleanup job. It looks a lot better.
>>
>> However, the text and links to the API documentation have vanished. 
>> The API dox are not stored on the plone site. It is awkward to manage 
>> a large number of files in Plone; the current draft API dox contains 
>> over 500 files. Therefore I posted the admb dox on admb-foundation.org.
>>
>> I originally had two versions of the dox: the first in the default 
>> doxygen format with customized colors; the  second version in a 
>> javadocs style. (I don't like the javadocs style much, but some 
>> people prefer it. Also the doxygen modification that creates the 
>> javodocs style is not maintained and does not include all of the 
>> current features of doxygen). The links are 
>> http://admb-foundation.org/documentation/api/default/ and 
>> http://admb-foundation.org/documentation/api/sunsys
>>
>> Cheers,
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/17/2010 05:07 PM, Arni Magnusson wrote:
>>
>>> While squeezing the new 'Libraries' into the 'Community' Plone 
>>> section of admb-project.org, I did some spring cleaning.
>>>
>>> The situation was worst in the 'Documentation' section, where I 
>>> eliminated some redundancies and created subdirectories. I hope I 
>>> didn't step on anyone's toes, but you may want to check that. I 
>>> think some of the links still point to non-existing nodes, but Plone 
>>> seems to be pretty smart at finding the intended target in the new 
>>> location. The 'images' directory is still duplicated in two locations.
>>>
>>> As before, there are some instructions in the 'Documentation' 
>>> section that could be updated and improved. That should be easier to 
>>> approach, now that the flotsam has been compartmentalized.
>>>
>>> Arni
>>
>

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John Sibert
Emeritus Researcher, SOEST
University of Hawaii at Manoa

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