[development] New advanced help module

[Ken Rickard]

Any ideas how this will intersect with the accepted Summer of Code project:

Revamp Drupal's help system (Gurpartap Singh), mentored by dmitrig01 and
heyrocker.

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Ken Rickard
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On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Konstantin Käfer <kkaefer at gmail.com> wrote:

> The module is located at http://drupal.org/project/advanced_help.
>
> Konstantin Käfer -- http://kkaefer.com/
>
>
> On 19.04.2008, at 03:25, Earl Miles wrote:
>
> > Earl Miles wrote:
> >
> > > In an effort to provide a framework to get decent documentation into
> > > Views 2, I determined that the built in Drupal help is simply not
> > > satisfactory for my needs. So I built this framework as a generic module
> > > that any module can utilize as an option to get expanded documentation about
> > > the administrative side of a module.
> > >
> > > Currently the module is in beta status -- it is almost certainly
> > > missing features, but it has what I want. I'll happily, however, let others
> > > who want to expand this to meet the needs of other modules. In my ideal
> > > world, this module will be improved, code-wise, until it is core worthy and
> > > the basic "how to use Drupal" documentation ends up shipped with Drupal.
> > > Perhaps this can happen as part of an upcoming Summer of Code project; in
> > > any case, I put this out there for people to use and see what we can do with
> > > it.
> > >
> > > Also, look at it this way: If Views uses it, you know that 50% of the
> > > modules out there for Drupal 6 will at least be exposed to it.
> > >
> > > Oh, the module is for Drupal 6 but can probably be backported to D5
> > > with not a lot of effort. If someone wants to do that, great. I won't be
> > > doing it, though. =)
> > >
> > By the way, I'm keenly interested in the opinion of the translation
> > wizards out there to make sure I got it right and am not missing something
> > necessary or that could make this even easier.
> >
>
>
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