Open lwasser opened 3 weeks ago
There are a few of these floating around from CSCW/STS people that are better than this, but a typology of documentation i find helpful:
would be nice to have an overview like this somewhere, I think it's in a few places and in the structure of that section of the guide, but seems like "overview" material :)
(sorry if this isn't waht you meant in this issue)
https://www.pyopensci.org/python-package-guide/documentation/write-user-documentation/document-your-code-api-docstrings.html
We have the above page in our guidebook but a more robust page on the different types of documentation and how to add it would be useful. This would include
reference and links to how expressive naming contributes to documentation
How and when to add docstrings
How to add docstring examples
How to call help / see how the docstrings appear to a user
Notes on how docstrings become critical when adding API docs (as a small section at the end).