Rob,

Any contributions you can provide would be most welcome... especially if you 
can help us apply that style guide to existing docs. We're making a big push to 
improve the documentation this year, but it's hard work and often gets 
prioritized below things like bug fixes to the actual framework. 

It all starts with a pull request :-)

rjs

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Posener [mailto:rposen...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 5:45 PM
To: dev@cordova.apache.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Cordova Style Guide

Gerday, Dmitry,
I'm a bit of a documentation pedant.
I have been "monitoring" Cordova development for a few months now, with the 
initial intent of wanting to contribute to improving the documentation (and 
then, perhaps to contributing to the code base).
The thing that has struck me in this time is that there appears to be NO 
documentation style standards.  Yes, the documents you reference go some of the 
way towards what I am looking for but they could be a lot better (eg, is it 
"E.g.,", "eg,", "e.g.,", is it "Cordova" or "cordova", is it "database" or 
"data base", do you put a comma before the "and" in the last of a list of comma 
separated items (eg, is it "a, b, c, and d" or is it "a, b, c and d"), do we 
employ USA-English or UK-English (or both), etc).
Further, it appears that some contributors "pick up" others with their code 
style standard breaches (I have seen "please insert a space here", "please lint 
this", etc), but I rarely see anyone picking up documentation style standards 
beaches.
Without letting my ego get in the way, I'm happy to contribute a suggested list 
of style standards (that I use when developing Android and Windows apps using 
Cordova) as well as acting in a Quality Assurance role with the documentation.
As you probably know, the Cordova documentation is quite regularly critcised 
all over the web.  Rather than be just another one of these criicisers, I'm 
happy "to put my time where my mouth is" and contribute.  I (and others) 
believe we can do a lot better here.  What do you think?

Rob

Regards
*Rob Posener*
0419 012 627

On 27 January 2016 at 11:55, Dmitry Blotsky <dblot...@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I know we used to have a style guide on the wiki, but that seems long 
> dead. I created a JIRA for a new Cordova-wide style guide, covering 
> most of the languages we use (feel free to add others). The JIRA is here:
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fissue
> s.apache.org%2fjira%2fbrowse%2fCB-10448.&data=01%7c01%7crsalva%40micro
> soft.com%7cdb95d5df3d7545a54e1008d326bb7ca9%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7c
> d011db47%7c1&sdata=iBwCcS7cBzD%2fnsj79mTPQCFzWUTUUm%2fkBlSTPmBBBFk%3d
>
> Kindly,
> Dmitry
>

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