[gst-devel] completing the API docs

Stefan Kost kost at imn.htwk-leipzig.de
Thu Aug 12 07:01:05 CEST 2004


Just the keep the topic active - in the last two weeks not a single undocumented
API entry has been resolved :-(
And some people already think about starting the 0.9 branch ...

Ciao
  Stefan

Stefan Kost wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I've done another round of cleanups. The references from the manual and the pwg
> to the API docs are now working again.
> 
> The API-docs itself are a bit huge, especially the list at:
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer/html/gstreamer.html
> 
> Please suggest me, about elements that should not appear in den public docs or
> should be moved to a subsection. You know, we can add chapter and subchapter as
> we like.
> 
> And finally you can go on adding long descriptions to all those sections, where
> it still is missing.
> 
> Lets get the number of undocumented entries under 200 before doing the next release!
> 
> Ciao
>   Stefan
> 
> Stefan Kost wrote:
> 
>>hi,
>>
>>I know I am a pest, but after cleaning up the section file, we have a quite
>>preceice log of undocumentetd public api entries in
>>docs/gst/gstreamer-undocumented.txt (nearly 400)
>>
>>1.) It would be good if you all could glimpse over it and if you find something
>>you remember that you have added it in the past (or know what it does), please
>>comment it! E.g. gst/gstvalue.c has even the documentation template in there,
>>they just need to be filled ;-).
>>A big batch are macros/defines (about 200) where we can move many of them to the
>>Standard/Private section, if you tell me these dont need to be documentend (like
>>e.g. GST_TYPE_.*)
>>
>>2.) Second what do we do with the GstElements in gstreamer core. Should we add
>>another section containing them (someone seem to had a go on this already - its
>>all commented out in the gstreamer-docs.sgml).
>>
>>3.) Same question for interfaces, schedulers (what elso do we have in quantities?)
>>
>>Stefan
> 
> 

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