Is there any developer documentation available?

You could look at existing plugins. After we race to meet this deadline I am going back and making documentation.

I'm copying my comments from question 91925 which was marked as a duplicate of this:

There is no readme, no list of dependencies or anything else that would help a willing contributor get started.

What I would like to see is this:
1. a very short compilation guide, in the spirit of "install foo and bar, then run autogen.sh or open Docky-2.sln".
2. a simple overview of docky's architecture: what each project does and how it fits together with the rest.
3. a code style and best practices guide. (For example, the project is using Mono-style formatting as far as I can see, stuff like that).
4. a simple guide to writing a plugin (maybe even provide a skeletal plugin that the user can jump in and edit directly).
5. any other thing you think a new developer should be aware of (for example, licensing, copyright, how to submit a patch...)

As Robert Dyer commented, there actually *is* a compilation guide (http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/Installing_Docky). This is a good start but (a) this page, or a link to this page, should be added to the docky source repository and (b) this guide fails to mention MonoDevelop, which doesn't work out of the box right now (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/docky/+bug/492804). After fixing those issues, item #1 will be covered 100%.

According to https://bugs.launchpad.net/docky/+bug/492804:

"Note that compiling/installing Docky from MonoDevelop is not an officially supported method."

Is it recommended to use vi and mdb directly in order to test/debug docky? If so, maybe this should be mentioned somewhere in the docs or the installation guide.

Also : a break down of methods for c-sharp and python would be nice.

much like how jquery docs appear.