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code documentation

We are currently documenting all the code of WikkaWiki using phpDocumentor docblocks, it would be nice if Ohloh was able to detect projects containing structured documentation as opposed to simple inline comments (and maybe distinguish the two in the codebase history graph).

If this is feasible, you may also want to give project maintainers the possibility to add a link to compiled, human-readable code documentation.

dartar about 17 years ago
 

bumping this because no one reacted�is this because of lack of interest for this feature request or for the complexity of its implementation in terms of code parsing? I'd like to hear from others on this.

dartar about 17 years ago
 

It's a good idea. Some sort of analysis of documentation comments would be cool.

Wells about 17 years ago
 

thanks for the bump, dartar - exactly what this needed!

General Project Help/Docs Links
You're reading our minds! We're close to adding a new Ohloh feature soon: project links. Basically anyone will be able to add links related to a project (ie: tutorials, manuals, forums, etc...).

Structured Documentations
Ohloh doesn't currently 'understand' comments - we just count them up. I can think of 2 features if we were to start 'understand' them. Namely:

  • Show the structured documentation metrics: basically - we could treat it as a comment 'language'. Just like code has languages (C, Java, etc..), comments could also have 'languages' (we'd call them something else - types? flavors?). Examples of these would be: phpDocumentor, javaDoc, RDoc (ruby), etc...

  • parse the comments appropriately, generate the resulting documentation and re-host it.

I assume you're hoping for the metrics part (if not the hosting of the docs). Let me know if there's any other ideas around this and if I understood you clearly. Thanks!

Jason Allen about 17 years ago
 

Hi Jason, and thanks for your reply, I was actually referring to the metrics part, since I assume every project hosts its own code documentation so there's no need to replicate this.

dartar about 17 years ago
 

We're close to adding a new Ohloh feature soon: project links.

Jason, I see they are live�cool.

May I suggest a few more categories?

  • Developer documentation (i.e. self-compiled docs from the code)
  • Demo
  • Code repository (SVN or CVS)
  • Bug tracker
dartar about 17 years ago
 

Hi Dario,

Great suggestions. I'll give the links feature a few days to bake, then I'll add the categories you suggested. Thanks!

Jason Allen about 17 years ago