Hi all

One of the big pieces of work we undertook earlier in the year was
migrating the wiki from Trac and establishing the Puppet Docs site at:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com

During this process we began doing a programmatic conversion of the
Restructured Text output from the automatically generated documentation
to Markdown.    The conversion process is less than perfect and some of
the Markdown generated is not overly elegant - making some of our Docs
pages ugly and hard to read.

As a result we've decided to rewrite the internal documentation from
Restructured Text to Markdown (see
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4509).

This is largely:

1. The types and providers documentation (lib/puppet/types/typename.rb &
lib/puppet/providers/provider...)
2. The functions and metaparameter documentation
(lib/puppet/parser/functions/functioname.rb)
3. The configuration reference (lib/puppet/default.rb)
4. And the report, network and indirection references

Updating this documentation doesn't require any Ruby knowledge!  All you
need to be able to do is change the existing format into Markdown (both
are fairly simple markup formats).

So if you've ever wanted to contribute to Puppet's core and get some
commits on the board then this is the perfect opportunity.

All you need to go is clone the Puppet git repo and follow the
development life cycle documentation -
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Development_Lifecycle -
(or feel free to ask for help on #puppet on IRC or either list).

OR email me or anyone else from the team if you'd like to help.  Even a
small number of commits will assist us in migrating this documentation
and making the experience of using Puppet easier!

Cheers

James Turnbull

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