On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 21:46:39 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
There is awareness. Good documentation is something we know we
need and is an ideal to live into.
Problem is prioritizing. I must be spending cumulatively a
couple of hours everyday just deciding what to work on next.
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 10:26:09 UTC, Chris wrote:
Again, as I said to bachmeier (the name sounds Bavarian, btw),
if the system is so complicated, there's something wrong.
yeah. I think it is a huge pain to contribute to the web site,
though it is a lot better than it used to be, it
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 15:35:23 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 10:26:09 UTC, Chris wrote:
Again, as I said to bachmeier (the name sounds Bavarian, btw),
if the system is so complicated, there's something wrong.
yeah. I think it is a huge pain to
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 16:22:32 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Setup and maintenance is one thing.
Another is having to learn Git if you don't already know it.
Another is that there is no guide for contributing to the
documentation. I didn't know lines are supposed to be no more
than 80
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 16:22:32 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Another is that there is no guide for contributing to the
documentation. I didn't know lines are supposed to be no more
than 80 columns.
Actually there is such documentation about it but guess what?
It's hidden -like many other
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 19:06:05 UTC, NX wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 16:22:32 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Another is that there is no guide for contributing to the
documentation. I didn't know lines are supposed to be no more
than 80 columns.
Actually there is such
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 16:54:56 UTC, Chris wrote:
Good that we're talking about this now. Maybe the D leadership
is not aware of this. Too many little annoyances that keep
people from contributing.
I'm going to guess that they are probably not aware of it. When
you are the one that
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 21:45:55 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 12/02/2015 04:22 PM, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 16:54:56 UTC, Chris wrote:
Good that we're talking about this now. Maybe the D
leadership is not
aware of this. Too many little annoyances that
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 00:28:17 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
The wiki page is pretty good right now. A link to it from the
home page titled "Getting Involved" would do the trick. I don't
think it's a good idea to put anything more than necessary on
dlang.org, because it takes an act of
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 01:40:36 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 21:01:17 UTC, Chris wrote:
There is a lot of low hanging fruit, stuff that doesn't even
require coding.
You know, I just want to point out that writing documentation
is actually really quite
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 01:40:36 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
BTW on the topic of documentation, I actually hired a junior
programmer with no D experience to write some D tutorials with
me. It was actually kinda eye opening to see all the things I
take for granted being a stumbling block
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 21:22:43 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 16:54:56 UTC, Chris wrote:
Good that we're talking about this now. Maybe the D leadership
is not aware of this. Too many little annoyances that keep
people from contributing.
I'm going to guess
On 12/02/2015 04:22 PM, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 16:54:56 UTC, Chris wrote:
Good that we're talking about this now. Maybe the D leadership is not
aware of this. Too many little annoyances that keep people from
contributing.
I'm going to guess that they are probably
Wouldn't it make sense to have "Getting involved" on the start
page of dlang.org? Most OSS projects feature something like this
on their homepages. In this way, if somebody feels like
contributing to D, they get the how-to info straight away
(preferably not on Wiki, but on dlang.org).
There
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 21:01:17 UTC, Chris wrote:
Wouldn't it make sense to have "Getting involved" on the start
page of dlang.org? Most OSS projects feature something like
this on their homepages. In this way, if somebody feels like
contributing to D, they get the how-to info straight
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 21:01:17 UTC, Chris wrote:
There is a lot of low hanging fruit, stuff that doesn't even
require coding.
You know, I just want to point out that writing documentation is
actually really quite hard... you need to know how it works, well
enough to write about
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