Hello again, and welcome to another update on the Twisted Lore to Sphinx
conversion project.
Current Sphinx results are in the usual place at:
http://twistedsphinx.funsize.net/
Here's what's new:
- The lore2sphinx conversion script is now up on bitbucket. You can find it
here: http://bitbucket.org/khorn/lore2sphinx/ .
Special thanks to Steve Steiner (ssteinerX) for helping out a bitbucket
newbie.
- lore2sphinx now reads input and output directories from a config file.
The config file can have one or more "profiles", each of which contains
config info for a set of documentation. At present, the script just uses the
default profile (set in the config file), but I'll add a command line switch
to specify the profile Real Soon Now (tm), which will make it easy to use a
single config file for multiple projects (e.g. twisted, nevow, mantissa,
etc.)
- lore2sphinx has also been refactored a bit, which solves a lot of
whitespace handling issues. The Sphinx build now gives fewer than 100 errors
(currently 65, started off in the 500-600 range)! Hooray! Still, not all
of the output is fully correct, and some tags (notably tables) are still
unhandled.
- I still haven't started any work on a theme...I'll get to it eventually,
unless someone else does first. Any volunteers?
- Divmod docs: new config file support is a step in this direction, look for
something soon...
- PyOpenSSL docs: kind of a sideline to this so I haven't really moved
forward on this yet, but I will eventually
If anyone out there would like to help out, I can certainly use the
assistance. Lore2sphinx could probably use some extra eyeballs and brains
looking at it, thought the basic structure is pretty much laid out. Any
ideas/comments/criticisms welcome.
If you're intimidated by the idea of working on the actual lore2sphinx
conversion script (or just don't want to), here's some other stuff that
needs doing:
- work on a twisted (or Divmod) Sphinx theme which at least mostly matches
the website (or the Divmod website)
- identify branches which have lore patches in them
- identify tickets which propose to fix/modify Lore functionality
- identify wiki pages that need to be changed, and the necessary changes
- make suggestions on the overall conversion process, as documented in the
proposal.
I'm sure I'll manage to get all this done eventually, but with more people,
it will get done sooner. And sooner is better. :)
If you'd like to help out with one (or more) of these tasks, just give a
shout here, or email me off-list.
Thanks!
Kevin Horn
