Perhaps it's easier for me to do a fork on GitHub?  Then any documentation 
submissions can be taken across at a time that suits whoever is doing it rather 
than synced with my submission timeline?


On 22 Feb 2010, at 17:05, Timothy Perrett wrote:

> We are interested in the contribution of course... I think the issue is 
> mostly about how we take patches for this. Someone on the team would need to 
> own this and merge your documentation changes into the master (provided DPP 
> has no objections to this - seeing as its documentation I doubt he has) 
> 
> Any takers from the team? 
> 
> Cheers, Tim
> 
> On 22 Feb 2010, at 16:14, Stuart Roebuck wrote:
> 
>> Sorry for the slow response—was away for a family weekend!
>> 
>> I have limited knowledge of Lift internals…
>> 
>> However, my view is that it is often easier to document code when you
>> don't know it well than when you do, because you soon loose interest
>> in documenting things that are obvious to you.  What I hope to do is
>> document the things that I need to know as I go along on the basis
>> that many of these things will also be important to others.  It's an
>> agile rather than systematic approach if you see what I mean.
>> 
>> I have no ego issues here.  It's just a small way of giving to the
>> community in a win-win kind of way.  If my contributions don't seem
>> helpful to anyone else then folk can say and I'm not going to
>> disappear in a torrent of abuse :-)
>> 
>> Similarly, I'm not proposing some big project here. I'm talking about
>> a drip-drip of updates as I spot things that need documenting—I've got
>> plenty other stuff on my plate right now as I'm launching a company
>> based on a Lift based product in mid-year.
>> 
>> Enough said…
>> 
>> How do we resolve the documentation standard issue? (Scala 2.8
>> Scaladoc2 or prior)  David?
>> 
>> Stuart.
>> 
>> On Feb 19, 4:11 pm, Timothy Perrett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> This could work - although, some parts of lift are very non-trivial and 
>>> require good knowledge of lift internals. Do you have such knowledge or are 
>>> you just hoping to contribute where you can with helpful information? Both 
>>> are good, just trying to establish what you had in mind.
>>> 
>>> Lift-util probably has the best docs at the moment, so if we could emulate 
>>> that it would be good.
>>> 
>>> Cheers, Tim
>>> 
>>> On 19 Feb 2010, at 15:56, Ross Mellgren wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> If you can get an established standard on what the content and format 
>>>> should be, I can work with you reviewing the patches and applying them.
>>> 
>>>> But, need to get a concordance from the list on the content first.
>>> 
>>>> -Ross
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 19, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Stuart Roebuck wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> I've had a bit of a break from Lift and coming back I find myself
>>>>> annoyed that I didn't write some notes last time and am having to go
>>>>> back to searching through the various bits of documentation to figure
>>>>> things out.
>>> 
>>>>> Anyway, after much thought I decided that the best way to write my
>>>>> notes would be to supplement the API docs (ie. the Scaladoc
>>>>> documentation in the code base). so that I can view context sensitive
>>>>> help in my IDE of choice and others can benefit from my labours!
>>> 
>>>>> So, question 1…
>>> 
>>>>> The current API docs are very light on documentation and sometime ago
>>>>> I noticed some notice about removing documentation from the code
>>>>> base.   Is there some policy about not having documentation in the
>>>>> code or any thought on whether it should adhere to the Scaladoc 2
>>>>> syntax?
>>> 
>>>>> Question 2…
>>> 
>>>>> This is only really going to work if the process of submitting the
>>>>> documentation is reasonably straightforward so… What's the easiest
>>>>> possible way of submitting documentation changes to the code base? (if
>>>>> indeed this is something the core team would welcome).   I was
>>>>> thinking of perhaps emailing git patch files to someone in the core
>>>>> team who can verify that the comments are right before checking them
>>>>> in.  Any thoughts?
>>> 
>>>>> If there is a reasonably explainable approach, it could be added as a
>>>>> Wiki page to encourage wider participation.
>>> 
>>>>> Best,
>>> 
>>>>> Stuart.
>>> 
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