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# Odoc dev meeting 2021-03-25

## Attendees

@jonludlam 
@lortex 
@lubega-simon
@julow
@lpw25
@Drup

## 2.0 issues

### New:
- Memory issues noticed in JS. Issue to be created.

- Strengthening in the presence of Module Type Of - possibly down to strengthening with a hidden module. Issue to be created.

- [#650](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/650) (Need ModuleType 'aliases') - suggestion: 2.0.0 (otherwise would break links)

- [#648](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/648) (Warnings about ambigous references are bogus) - suggestion: 2.0.0, with 'check' issue

- [#645](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/645) (Comment attached to include are dropped) - PR in progress
  - always drop the top comment in the signature expansion
  - take the top-comment in @inline includes that are the first item of a sig



- [#636](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/636) (Renderers: allow for unqualified identifier rendering) suggestion: post 2.0.0

- [#651](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/651) ( Improve tests for generators (html, man, and latex))
### Fixed since last time:

- [#590](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/590) (Enable references to refer to pages with '.' or '-')

- [#541](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/541) (Alignment "styles" (Center, Left, Right) are not supported) - @lubegasimon

- [#328](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/328) (No code change)

- [#631](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/631) - PR [#640](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/pull/640), also fixes [#235](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/235)

### PRs open:

- issue [#632](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/632) (No synopsis rendered for modules) - PR [#643](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/pull/643). Some discussion happened - good to merge now?

- [#644](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/pull/644) - documentation of how to write comments in modules

- issue [#559](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/559) (Canonical does not work on compilation units) - PR [#649](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/pull/649)

### In progress:


- [#460](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/460) (reference driver needed) - in progress, on hold

- [#573](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/573) (docs are bad) - in progress, on hold

- [#557](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/557) (Command to extract errors from odocl files) - @jonludlam to fix

- [#478](https://github.com/ocaml/odoc/issues/478) (Top-level doc-comments of module types are discarded) - @Julow - is this now fixed?


### Unstarted:

Just the new issues

## docs.ocaml.org

@lortex working hard on this - excellent progress! (demo??)

https://ci.mirage.io/wip/packages/index.html


## Next meeting

- 2021-04-08 ? Check due to Easter vacation plans?


