[PySide] Contributing to documentation?

[Eric Thomson]

Thanks a lot for those suggestions, and the information about how the
documentation is generated.  I will look at the documentation side of
the bug tracker, that seems like an excellent place to start.

On 10/2/14, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> In addition, there is now a new Documentation component in PySide bug
> tracker at https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/PYSIDE
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Sean Fisk <sean at seanfisk.com> wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> A while ago, I wrote a script to generate the PySide documentation. It’s
>> intensely complex because it requires a qdoc3 executable from Qt 4.6.4
>> for
>> XML output support (if my memory serves). That repository might be a
>> place
>> to start.
>>
>> For what it’s worth, I usually just use the C++ documentation and prior
>> knowledge of porting patterns to write my PySide code. I realize that’s
>> not
>> really an answer, but it’s worked for me thus far.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sean Fisk
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Eric Thomson <thomson.eric at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> As I learn PySide, the online documentation is my lifeline, but there
>>> are quite a few gaps. For instance, at
>>> http://pyside.github.io/docs/pyside/PySide/QtCore/QMimeData.html, we
>>> have the following:
>>>
>>> "There are three approaches for storing custom data in a
>>> PySide.QtCore.QMimeData object:  "
>>>
>>> And then...nothing. It does not list the three approaches, which are
>>> described at the Qt documentation in some detail
>>> (http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.6/qmimedata.html). There it is obviously
>>> for C++ users, obviously.
>>>
>>> I would really like to help translate some of this stuff into Python,
>>> where I can, but am not sure how to go about helping, or if such work
>>> would even last. For instance, would such contributions be lost when
>>> documentation is automatically updated?
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> anatoly t.
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