Re: Newbie volunteer -- need some directions and help

From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 12:56:51 EDT

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    PS: Two things:

       * I'm sending this reply to the list (not sure why we went off list)
       * I just noticed that a criteria for the list of projects using
    Doxygen is that the (Doxygen) documentation must be online or
    downloadable (to appear on that list). Thus, proprietary projects using
    Doxygen would probably not appear on that list.

    Randy Kramer

    Randy Kramer wrote:
    >
    > Alan,
    >
    > Clearly, I am not an authority on the subject.
    >
    > I know people in projects that I follow are familiar with it, and some
    > of them use it. (TWiki is Perl, and does not use Doxygen.)
    >
    > I did a Google search on Doxygen -- 264,000 hits -- if they are
    > complaints, it's a bad sign, otherwise it may be a positive sign.
    >
    > Off the Doxygen home page there is a page: "Projects that use doxygen
    > Here is a (long but incomplete) list of projects that use Doxygen.":
    >
    > http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/projects.html
    >
    > I suspect that Doxygen is used more by open source projects than
    > proprietary projects, but i expect this to change as open source takes
    > over the world. ;-)
    >
    > I think if you are learning to program you should learn something about
    > Doxygen, LXR, Literate Programming in general, LEO in particular, and
    > many other things.
    >
    > Randy Kramer
    >
    > Alan Horkan wrote:
    > >
    > > randy
    > >
    > > do you know if Doxygen is generally used ?
    > > by many open source projects?
    > > by commercial programming groups?
    > >
    > > i know javadoc fairly well, and i always heavily comment any code i write,
    > > but i would like to ensure that i learn the most appropriate technology
    > > (and generally avoiding proprietry software, and platform as well as
    > > vendor lock in).
    > >
    > > Sincerly
    > > Alan
    > >
    > > reply onlist if you think it relavant. if you do respond to the list
    > > please trim all but relevant questions from your reply.
    > >
    > > > Other things that might help (but I have not managed to become a
    > > > developer (so far?), so take these with a grain of salt) would be to dig
    > > > into things like Doxygen (and maybe Bonsai?).
    > >
    > > not much point in using Bonsai if he cannot use CVS
    > >
    > > i told him how to use diff offlist and have offered to help him as best i
    > > can. i was lurking on the gnome-love mailing list and dragged him this
    > > way.
    > >
    > > Later

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