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

On 16. mai 2011, at 18:42, "Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 16/05/11 17:01, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 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. 
>> 
> 
> Something for 0.9.12.
> 

Yes, I realized... Great job at releasing everthing! 

-- 
Marie


> Garth
> 
>> 
>>> 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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