Re: gtk+ documentation wikified

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 19.02.2009, 10:33 -0500 schrieb Dominic Lachowicz:
> > That's hard-ish to do today. GTK+'s documentation is generated in
> > large part by scanning comments in C code, which a program then turns
> > into HTML. Any proposal would require a way to keep the Wiki and the C
> > comments in-sync.
>
> Still that proposed idea has some merits: Currently entry barrier for
> fixing GTK+ docs still is quite high.
>
> Guess the most trivial fix would be, to do what the PHP community does
> and attach some comment system/forum to library.gnome.org.
>
> More sophisticated would be some application that allows editing of API
> docs via web site and provides some way to easily merge them back. Maybe
> automatic commits to some separate branch? Maybe just additions to some
> patch queue? Don't know. But maybe a nice SoC project?

I remember some old mockups of library.gnome.org including line 
comments, ie comments that were attached to a particular chunk of text, 
rather to being attached to the whole page.