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Documentation Standards

Documentation standards should protect the reader from filler, drift, and false confidence.

For bijux-proteomics-foundation, documentation quality is mostly about explaining shared meaning before implementation detail and showing how that meaning travels across package boundaries.

Documentation Model

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    meaning["shared meaning"]
    examples["cross-package type and schema examples"]
    compatibility["release-critical compatibility notes"]
    reader["reader can predict downstream impact"]

    meaning --> examples
    examples --> compatibility
    compatibility --> reader

This page should keep the documentation anchored on contract travel, not local code tours. If the docs stop helping readers predict downstream impact, they are already drifting.

Review Rules

  • docs should describe shared meaning before implementation detail
  • examples should show how types travel across packages
  • compatibility notes should read like release-critical guidance

First Proof Check

  • packages/bijux-proteomics-foundation/tests
  • src/bijux_proteomics_foundation/schema.py and migrations.py
  • src/bijux_proteomics_foundation/serialization.py

Design Pressure

The easy failure is to document foundation like a utility library and bury the cross-package contract story that readers actually need.