Forum OpenACS Development: Response to Documentation: let's find the old stuff and make it useful again

Yes, this is good.  And Roberto, you're right, in my experience if people don't document code as they're writing it, they rarely find time to go back to do it.

I always try to write comments explaining tricky code as I'm writing it, otherwise I myself am likely to forget how it works.  For a complex proc like ad_form I didn't write the documentation in the header until I'd had some experience working with it as the design kept changes as I built real-live forms.  But I usually document the general functionality of a simpler proc as I'm writing it.

In another thread the subject of writing down coding conventions came up, starting with pre-existing aD stuff as a base.

Conventions for documenting should be part of this.

Jim ... do you need a folder or just commit rights to the relevant portions of the CVS tree?