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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:36:40 -0500
From:      "Daryl Chance" <dchance@midsouth.rr.com>
To:        <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Programmers Documentation Project
Message-ID:  <001501c0c76d$58726ab0$0200000a@satan>

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I just posted this on -doc, but I thought I'd ask you all for
thoughts on this since -stable will probably be the main target
for questions while/if this project is going on.

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Hi,

I was looking through the list of projects to see if one existed
for documenting the FBSD code.  The closest I came to it was this:
http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai/pdp.html

Does anyone know if there has been any recent work done on this?
the top of this page:
http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai/source-overview.txt

Has a date of 1999/04/01, a little over 2 years.

I say this is the closest, because I was looking for something else,
something a little more "thourough", like (I realize this would be
a HUGE undertaking) commenting all the functions in the FBSD source
and running something like ScanDoc against it or some other auto-
matic code documentation programs.

Anyone have any suggestions?  Offer any help?  I thought about this
which watching the recent discussion on "VM Balance" on -stable.
This would be a great project to start so that someone interested
in browsing the FBSD source can see more then just the code, they
can see the functions, structs, etc etc and read the comments
against those.  It may help the people doing work on FBSD to learn
more about the source.

Thoughts?  I'd be willing to help out, or even lead this project.
I do think this would take a lot of patience from the -stable people
answering our questions about things that they would consider
trivial :).  I'm only on a Cable connection w/ a K6 333 as my most
powerful server, but I can offer up this to see this project get off
the ground and to show that theres some interest.  I'd also have
to learn scandoc or whatever documentation tool we plan on using if
theres any interest.

Thanks,
Daryl Chance


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