Python API to generate publish metadata dicts

[mustafa_jafar]

@Tilix4

My proposal is that we use classes and functions to build these metadata dicts.

I think introducing more abstraction for contributors can be good which should asset them as you mentioned.

@Tilix4

Creating documentation could be very helpful and a good start, but I’m afraid contributors won’t stick to it and as reviewers we easily forget this part.

(from my short experience) there are many possible things for developers to do and having tailored guides would provide them with what they only need to know about that specific thing
This is what I was trying to achieve here

AYON / Openpype Publish process - Development guide

Introduction Walking through this guide to learn about how a new product-type support is added to AYON/OP. Publish plugins are DCC specific but they follow the same structure. I will give examples from Houdini because I don’t like using arbitrary examples. So, consider finding the respective methods in other DCCs Publish Process is built on top of pyblish where: you mark a group of data with special marks using a creator tool continue work as usual on publishing, the publish tool will …

I’m not just talking about introducing new guides but also some dev templates.

Those were my 2 cents and I hope they are related to the topic.