Written by nand the 16 Apr 08 at 18:12.
Category: Programming.
Related project:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
Rationale
What if the API documentation and specs for all the development packages available in Ubuntu would be gathered in a common website?
On top of that, it would be possible to link articles, blog posts describing some coding example related to a given lib.
An example of the website organization:
* hardy
* gutsy
** Audio
** Kernel
** GUI
*** Qt
*** GTK+
**** API docs
**** specs
**** links to external code sample
The main goal of this idea is to lower the barrier for new contributing coders by making an easy access to all the docs, samples, specs, helloworlds in a single place.
On the server side, this should somehow be automatic, to make needed human interaction as mimimum as possible.
I was actually very surprised this wasn't really a dupe. There is http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4478/ but its a bit broad, so not sure if it should be marked as dupe.
+1. It also means we could offer a annual package with all the content on the site to use offline such as is done with msdn
You need more then a wiki really j1mc I'd say, well, at least, it has to be kept up to date (I guess a wiki may work). But I should be able to look up a function name, and it pulls up the function name from any language or app ubuntu supports.
nand(Brainstorm admin)
wrote on the 12 Dec 08 at 18:03