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fixing the documentation problem
user name
2006-11-21 00:13:51
Hi,

I know this isn't going to the pear-doc list, but I am
addressing this
to PEAR developers who are not already involved in
documentation.

I would like to encourage each of you to take one of the
packages you
see at http://pe
ar.cweiske.de/coverage/simple.html that is highlighted
in red, and create a basic documentation page.

As an example, I just committed documentation for
Auth_RADIUS, a package
I have never used and don't know anything about.  Through
google,
looking at source code, and reading a few things, I was able
to find
enough information to direct users to answer a few key
questions:

1) what is it?
2) how do I install it?
3) how do I use it?

For #3, I pasted the examples from the most recent release.

source for the docbook is in cvs in

peardoc/en/package/authentication.xml
peardoc/en/package/authentication/auth-radius.xml
peardoc/en/package/authentication/auth-radius/intro.xml

Doing this took me approximately 25 minutes.

Note that I also validated on windows using cygwin build
instructions
(google "peardoc on windows"), and used
"autoconf;./configure;make test"
to make sure it was all good stuff.

Please use this as a template to create your docs.  If we
each take 1
package that we don't maintain, and do this, it could kill
the
undocumented packages issue on a basic level.  Adding user
comments will
also help, but that is for later.

Thanks,
Greg

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