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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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.

I don't think the separation was that clear: we had many end users who
had access to the source code but chose to file bugs rather than
patches - all of Canonical. And we still have that separation today:
there are many folk who for their own reasons don't want to develop
Launchpad, they just want to use it.

I do agree that the help.launchpad.net site is particularly focused on
end users, but I don't think casual scripters will be helped by
searching on a site that includes things like style guides,
development processes and so on.

Perhaps making sure all the API help is under /API/, or perhaps a
help.api.launchpad.net site dedicated to the API ?

-Rob