Rewrite of Skydoc

[laurentlb]

We plan to rewrite Skydoc using a real Skylark interpreter (instead of Python).

[nataliejameson]

Is there a timeline or anything for this? I have a few features I'd like to add, but it'd kind of suck if they were immediately obsoleted :)

[laurentlb]

@c-parsons has a prototype (see recent pull requests).
I would discourage you from doing any meaningful development on the Python code.

[nataliejameson]

So looking through here: 1946693 does that mean that all development is going to instead be done in the bazel repo?

[c-parsons]

In the short/medium term, yes. Long term we want to move the source code / packages to the skydoc repository (or alternatively the Starlark repository)
..but there's still a lot of work to do to separate the source out from bazel packages.

[c-parsons]

We've announced launch of Stardoc on bazel-dev@googlegroups.com and updated the documentation in https://skydoc.bazel.build
We'll follow up to make a release announcement alongside a Bazel release, and then remove skydoc and its documentation.

[dgoldstein0]

so... this shipped? should this issue be closed?

[c-parsons]

Yeah -- sure. I was keeping it open for a release annoucement and subsequent removal of old-Skydoc, but I can track that elsewhere.