Rob, I appreciate your enthusiasm. Cordova docs need a lot of improvement. We did a survey in October and 70% of negative comments focused on problems with our docs.
Committers at Microsoft are pushing hard to improve the Cordova docs - but we need a lot of help from the community. We are using a JIRA Kanban board [1] that we are using to track documentation tasks/bugs. This captures all the work referenced in creating a new information architecture for our docs [2]. There are a number of ways to help in this effort: - Pick one of the JIRA bug/task to improve the current docs. Start small - any help here would be fantastic! - Review doc updates for styling etc. issues. PRs are filed against cordova-docs repo [3]. - File JIRAs for issues that you find in current docs. - Identify high priority topics that are currently missing and need to be added. - Help organize document scrubs within the community. It's critical for a dev platform to have good docs and our goal is to make that happen for Cordova in the upcoming months. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=108&view=detail&selectedIssue=CB-10348 [2] https://github.com/cordova/cordova-discuss/pull/31/files?short_path=b589504#diff-b589504f1eedbd87c81f38ce873d5d85 [3] https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs Thanks, Nikhil -----Original Message----- From: Ryan J. Salva [mailto:rsa...@microsoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 5:54 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Cordova Style Guide 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
