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["Marie E. Rognes" <meg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 16. mai 2011, at 16:57, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 04:42:29PM +0200, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
>> On 16 May 2011 16:35, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 16/05/11 13:33, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 16. mai 2011, at 14:17, Kristian Ølgaard <k.b.oelgaard@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 16 May 2011 13:49, Marie E. Rognes <meg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 16. mai 2011, at 12:13, "Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I suggest now would be a good point to make new releases of
>>>>>>> UFL, FFC and DOLFIN. There have been a number of improvements
>>>>>>> to UFL, FFC caching, and there have been a good number of
>>>>>>> DOLFIN bugs fixes. New version numbers would be:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> UFL: 0.9.1 FFC: 0.9.1 DOLFIN: 0.9.12
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jump in quick if there is anything that you would like do
>>>>>>> before a release.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have one thing relating to the documentation, and the demo
>>>>>> documentation in particular.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In order to more easily keep the demo documentation in sync with
>>>>>> the demos, I think we should move the .rst files from the
>>>>>> separate fenics-doc repo to the corresponding dolfin demo
>>>>>> directories. Any objections?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, the whole point of fenics-docs was to collect the
>>>>> documentation in one place, thus separating the documentation from
>>>>> the packages containing the code.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I understand that point, but I don't see it working that well.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I sympathise with this point too, but I'm coming around to the doc being
>>> with the code for maintainability. The doc would be in the same
>>> directory, but we we wouldn't be mixing doc and code in one file.
>>> 
>>> We should start a new thread/blueprint on this. It doesn't impact on the
>>> imminent release.
> 
> It doesn't impact 0.9.11 but 1.0.0 is also pretty imminent so we
> should try to get to a conclusion quickly.
> 

It would be great to do this before 0.9.11 in order to have a release guinea pig for the doc/web. 


> Marie has already made some progress on setting this up, in particular
> looking at splitting up the documentation for various versions etc.
> 
>> I think having the docs in the same repo as the software makes perfect
>> sense. I can't see any reasons to split them.
> 
> There will still be a split between documentation of code (local .rst
> files in demo directories + code comments) and the rest (organization
> of the extracted documentation + web page + styling), which I think is
> good to have.
> 

Yes, me too. 

--
Marie

> --
> Anders
> 
> 
>> Martin
>> 
>>> 
>>> Garth
>>> 
>>>> Having the demo .rst files with the dolfin demos would (a) make it
>>>> more obvious to update them when updating the code and (b) make it
>>>> easier to ensure valid documentation for stable releases.
>>>> 
>>>> Wasn't the API documentation for the DOLFIN library moved in with the
>>>> code for some of the same reasons?
>>>> 
>>>> Writing documentation isn't that fun, so I would like to aim for a
>>>> system that is maintainable.
>>>> 
>>>> -- Marie
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Kristian
>>>>> 
>>>>>> (I'm on very flaky wifi until Wednesday morning and at the moment
>>>>>> slightly unable to do anything but occasionally retrieve
>>>>>> email...)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -- Marie
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Garth
>>>>>>> 
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