[Laszlo-dev] doc for incubator items?

Donald Anderson dda at ddanderson.com
Thu Feb 21 06:52:29 PST 2008


Thanks, Lou.
I will leave those pages out.

On Feb 21, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Lou Iorio wrote:

> The index.html page in the incubator directory says this:
>
> The Incubator directory contains components and other code that have  
> been contributed to the OpenLaszlo project, but have not yet been  
> fully integrated into the product. It is intended as an easy way to  
> contribute code that doesn't have the level of documentation,  
> testing, or API review that is required in other directories, or  
> that is simply contributed too late in the release cycle to place  
> elsewhere.
>
> Is it our intention to move some of this into the product proper at  
> some point?
>
> Until then, I don't think it should go into the documentation,  
> especially since
> it has not been properly tested. If we documented it, wouldn't we be  
> obliged
> to support it?
>
> At this point incubator is not even mentioned in the dguide (not  
> that that's
> necessarily a good thing).
>
> Lou
>
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Donald Anderson wrote:
>
>> I (privately) modified the generation of the navbar menus to show
>> anything that looks like a tag for all the  docs/reference/*.html  
>> files.
>> As a side effect, I'm picking up stuff in the incubator, much of  
>> which
>> does not have much documentation.  Should I leave incubator out?
>>
>> It might be nice someday to include it and have the menu item say:
>>   colorpicker (incubator)
>> and have a banner across the shown page to indicate it's in the  
>> incubator.
>> But I can leave that for another time if we leave incubator out of  
>> the
>> documentation.  There's so much more to do.
>>
>> - Don
>>
>> --
>>
>> Don Anderson
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>>
>> voice: 617-547-7881
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>


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