Documentation best practices

Documentation should follow established best practices to ensure clarity, consistency, and usefulness: 1. **Use proper link types**: Use relative links for internal resources and absolute HTTP links only for external resources.

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Documentation should follow established best practices to ensure clarity, consistency, and usefulness:

  1. Use proper link types: Use relative links for internal resources and absolute HTTP links only for external resources. ```python

    Good

    • Task SDK Overview <../concepts/taskflow.html>_

    Bad

    • Task SDK Overview <https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/concepts/taskflow.html>_ ```
  2. Write in complete sentences: Ensure all descriptions, especially in API documentation and migration notes, are complete sentences with proper grammar and punctuation.

  3. Document API components thoroughly: Include docstrings for all API functions, methods, and classes with detailed information about parameters, return values, and usage examples.
    @task
    def process_data(data_path: str, limit: Optional[int] = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        """
        Process data from the specified path with optional limit.
           
        :param data_path: Path to the data file to process
        :param limit: Maximum number of records to process, None for unlimited
        :return: Dictionary containing processed results
        """
        # Implementation
    
  4. Document all API variants: Ensure “sub” decorators and related API components (like @task.skip_if) are documented alongside their parent components.

  5. Use enhanced documentation directives: Use specialized directives like exampleinclude instead of literalinclude to provide “[sources]” links that give users access to complete context and code examples.

Following these practices improves documentation usability, making it easier for developers to understand and correctly implement the documented functionality.

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