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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Before we open-sourced, there was a clear separation between developers
and end users, and it made sense to put API help on help.launchpad.net,
not the developer wiki.  We were implying that API client developers
were a kind of user.

But that separation no longer exists, and I believe it makes sense to
classify API client developers as developers, not (just) users.  Our web
API is basically a subset of our Python API.  Developing against either
is pretty similar, and pretty different from using the web site, which
is the main focus of help.launchpad.net.  The line blurs further when
developers add functionality to Launchpad's Python API in order to use
it from web API client, as I did this week.
(https://code.launchpad.net/~abentley/launchpad/find-review/+merge/41195)

Is it time we move the API help to dev.launchpad.net?

Aaron

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