2009/1/18 Don Stewart <d...@galois.com>: > ross: >> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 09:12:32PM -0500, a...@spamcop.net wrote: >> > And FWIW, I agree with everyone who has commented that the documentation >> > is inadequate. It'd be nice if there was some way to contribute better >> > documentation without needing checkin access to the libraries. >> >> There is. The current state of the docs may be viewed at >> >> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/libraries/ >> >> Anyone can check out the darcs repos for the libraries, and post >> suggested improvements to the documentation to librar...@haskell.org >> (though you have to subscribe). It doesn't even have to be a patch. >> >> Sure, it could be smoother, but there's hardly a flood of contributions. > > I imagine if we set up a wiki-like system where the entire hackage docs > could be edited, as well as viewed, we would end up with a flood. > > A modification to haddock perhaps, that sends edits to generated docs to > libraries@ ?
This has come up many times lately. I've created a ticket for it: http://trac.haskell.org/haddock/ticket/72 If anyone has suggestions for design or implementation of a system like this, don't hesitate to post to this ticket! David _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe