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From: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
To: swedebugia@riseup.net
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Missing code comments in guix source: 2 examples from gnu/services
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:40:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE4v=piUQRm6aTFQKV2xiaxKpQs4=kUXVL54xUnkd0PnjAAfhw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <427b45c9-f2c6-1394-c5e6-aecf3e30570b@riseup.net>

Hello,

swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 5., H, 9:33):
>
> Hi
>
> Reading this http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/services/monitoring.scm
>
> I would like to know what darkstat is without having to look elsewhere.
>
> None of the (define-s have docstrings and the top comment
>
> ;;;
> ;;; darkstat
> ;;;
>
> does not help much.
>
> prometheus-node-exporter-shepherd-service is just as little documented in the same file. From the file I have no idea what this does as its only documentation is:
>
>      (shepherd-service
>       (documentation "Prometheus node exporter.")
>
> ---
>

Thanks for pointing this out, I will fix this in prometheus-node-exporter.
Can you point me to a service where the documentation is statisfactory?

> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/services/admin.scm
>
> Is generally a little better documented with docstrings. But here a header like
>
> ;;;
> ;;; darkstat
> ;;;
>
> is missing for rottlog and also a short description of what rottlog does. (from the name and peeking at the code I'm guessing it rotates logs but many services have arbitrary names, especially to newcomers on GNU/Linux)
>
> --
> Cheers
> Swedebugia

Best regards,
g_bor

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-05  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-05  8:30 Missing code comments in guix source: 2 examples from gnu/services swedebugia
2018-11-05  8:40 ` Gábor Boskovits [this message]
2018-11-05  9:14   ` swedebugia
2018-11-05 10:39     ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-11-06 14:15   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-08 23:12     ` swedebugia

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